Katsumi Nomizu was a Japanese-American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry.
13 Facts About Katsumi Nomizu
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Katsumi Nomizu studied mathematics at Osaka University, graduating in 1947 with a Master of Science then traveled to the United States on a US Army Fulbright Scholarship.
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Katsumi Nomizu studied first at Columbia University and then at the University of Chicago where in 1953 he became the first student to earn a Ph.
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Katsumi Nomizu presented his thesis, Invariant affine connections on homogeneous spaces in 1953.
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Katsumi Nomizu published his first volume, Lie Groups and Differential Geometry dedicated to his wife Kimiko whom he had married that same year.
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Katsumi Nomizu taught at Nagoya University until 1958 when he accepted a position at Catholic University in Washington DC His first Ph.
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Katsumi Nomizu was well known for his devotion to meticulous exposition in a very formal style and to high-quality teaching at the undergraduate level.
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Katsumi Nomizu was invited to visiting positions in Berlin, Bonn, Strasbourg, and Rio de Janeiro.
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Katsumi Nomizu retired from Brown University in 1995 as the Florence Pierce Grant University Professor.
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Katsumi Nomizu served as editor of a collection of papers on number theory and algebraic geometry published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996.
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Katsumi Nomizu received international awards from Germany, Japan and Italy for his writing and leadership.
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Katsumi Nomizu died on November 5,2008, in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Katsumi Nomizu is survived by his wife Kimiko and his four children: Naomi, Yvonne, Simone and Raymond and now ten familial grandchildren.