Goro Shimura was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry.
11 Facts About Goro Shimura
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Goro Shimura was born in Hamamatsu, Japan, on 23 February 1930.
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Goro Shimura then moved from Tokyo to join the faculty of Osaka University, but growing unhappy with his funding situation, he decided to seek employment in the United States.
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Goro Shimura joined the Princeton faculty in 1964 and retired in 1999, during which time he advised over 28 doctoral students and received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970, the Cole Prize for number theory in 1977, the Asahi Prize in 1991, and the Steele Prize for lifetime achievement in 1996.
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Goro Shimura described his approach to mathematics as "phenomenological": his interest was in finding new types of interesting behavior in the theory of automorphic forms.
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Goro Shimura argued for a "romantic" approach, something he found lacking in the younger generation of mathematicians.
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Goro Shimura used a two-part process for research, using one desk in his home dedicated to working on new research in the mornings and a second desk for perfecting papers in the afternoon.
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Goro Shimura had two children, Tomoko and Haru, with his wife Chikako.
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Goro Shimura died on 3 May 2019 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 89.
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Goro Shimura dryly commented that his first reaction on hearing of Andrew Wiles's proof of the semistable case was 'I told you so'.
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Goro Shimura's hobbies were shogi problems of extreme length and collecting Imari porcelain.