Kazuya Kato grew up in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan.
10 Facts About Kazuya Kato
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Kazuya Kato attended college at the University of Tokyo, from which he obtained his master's degree in 1975, and his PhD in 1980.
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Kazuya Kato was a professor at Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University.
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Kazuya Kato joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2009.
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Kazuya Kato has contributed to number theory and related parts of algebraic geometry.
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Kazuya Kato's theory was then extended to higher global class field theory in which several of his papers were written jointly with Shuji Saito.
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Kazuya Kato contributed to various other areas such as p-adic Hodge theory, logarithmic geometry, comparison conjectures, special values of zeta functions including applications to the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, the Bloch-Kato conjecture on Tamagawa numbers, and Iwasawa theory.
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In 2005 Kazuya Kato received the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy for "Research on Arithmetic Geometry".
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Kazuya Kato has published several books in Japanese, of which some have already been translated into English.
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Kazuya Kato wrote a book on Fermat's Last Theorem and is the coauthor of two volumes of the trilogy on Number Theory, which have been translated into English.