Hidehiko Yamabe Scientist

Hidehiko Yamabe (山辺 英彦, Yamabe Hidehiko, August 22, 1923 in Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan – November 20, 1960 in Evanston, Illinois) was a Japanese mathematician. His most notable work includes the final solution of Hilbert's fifth problem.

Personal facts

Birth dateAugust 22, 1923
Birth place
Ashiya Hyōgo
Nationality
Japan
Date of deathNovember 20, 1960
Place of death
Evanston Illinois
Education
University of Tokyo
Known for
Yamabe flow
Hilbert's fifth problem
Yamabe problem
Yamabe invariant

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
Field of study
Differential geometry
Group theory
influenced
Differential geometry
Group theory

Hidehiko Yamabe on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://books.google.com/books?id=xqaRjdjkxvUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true
  2. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1200690171
  3. http://www.math.umn.edu/newsletter/2008/news2008.pdf
  4. http://www.math.umn.edu/yamabe
  5. http://www.math.umn.edu/yamabe/history.html