Shoshichi Kobayashi
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is a famous Japanese
mathematician
. His research areas are Riemannian
and complex
manifold
s, and infinite Lie group
s.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo
in 1953. In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington
. His dissertation was Theory of Connections .
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
. His research areas are Riemannian
Riemannian manifold
In Riemannian geometry and the differential geometry of surfaces, a Riemannian manifold or Riemannian space is a real differentiable manifold M in which each tangent space is equipped with an inner product g, a Riemannian metric, which varies smoothly from point to point...
and complex
Complex manifold
In differential geometry, a complex manifold is a manifold with an atlas of charts to the open unit disk in Cn, such that the transition maps are holomorphic....
manifold
Manifold
In mathematics , a manifold is a topological space that on a small enough scale resembles the Euclidean space of a specific dimension, called the dimension of the manifold....
s, and infinite Lie group
Lie group
In mathematics, a Lie group is a group which is also a differentiable manifold, with the property that the group operations are compatible with the smooth structure...
s.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
in 1953. In 1956, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
. His dissertation was Theory of Connections .
List of books
- Hyperbolic Manifolds And Holomorphic Mappings: An Introduction(1970/2005)，World Scientific Publishing Company
- Transformation Groups in Differential Geometry(1972), Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 0-387-05848-6(1982),
- Complex Differential Geometry(1983), Birkhauser
- Differential Geometry of Complex Vector Bundles(1987), Princeton University Press(1990),
- Foundations of differential geometry(1996), coauthor with Katsumi Nomizu, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Hyperbolic Complex Space(1998)，Springer(2005),
External links
- Theory of connections Springerlink
- Publications of Shoshichi Kobayashi
- Shoshichi Kobayashi Department of Mathematics UC Berkeley