Yozo Matsushima studied at Osaka Imperial University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in September 1942.
16 Facts About Yozo Matsushima
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The first paper published by Yozo Matsushima contained a proof that a conjecture of Hans Zassenhaus was false.
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Yozo Matsushima then developed a proof that Cartan subalgebras of a complex Lie algebra are conjugate.
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However, Japanese researchers were out of touch with the research done in the West, and Yozo Matsushima was unaware that French mathematician Claude Chevalley had already published a proof.
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Yozo Matsushima published two papers in the 1947 volume of the Proceedings of the Japan Academy and three papers in the first volume of Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan.
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Yozo Matsushima became a full professor at Nagoya University in 1953.
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Yozo Matsushima went to France in 1954 and returned to Nagoya in December 1955.
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Yozo Matsushima presented some of his results to Ehresmann's seminar in Strasbourg, extending Cartan's classification of complex irreducible Lie algebras to the case of real Lie algebras.
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In spring 1960, Yozo Matsushima became a professor of Osaka University as successor to the chair of Shoda.
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Yozo Matsushima's research took a somewhat different direction and he wrote a series of papers on cohomology of locally symmetric spaces, collaborating with Murakami.
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Yozo Matsushima went to the Institute for Advanced Study in September 1962 and returned to Osaka after one year.
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Yozo Matsushima jointly began to organize the United States-Japan Seminar in Differential Geometry, which was held in Kyoto in June 1965.
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Yozo Matsushima accepted a chair at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, in September 1966.
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Yozo Matsushima introduced Matsushima's formula for the Betti numbers of quotients of symmetric spaces.
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In February 1981, a volume of papers Manifolds and Lie groups, Papers in honour of Yozo Matsushima was published by his colleagues and former students at Osaka.
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Yozo Matsushima received the Asahi Prize for his research on continuous groups in 1962.