Yutaka Taniyama was the sixth of eight children born to a doctor's family.
12 Facts About Yutaka Taniyama
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Yutaka Taniyama studied at Urawa High School after graduating from Fudouoka Middle School.
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Yutaka Taniyama suspended his college for two years due to his medical condition, but finally graduated in 1950.
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In 1958, Yutaka Taniyama worked as an Associate Professor after years of assistant at the University of Tokyo.
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On 17 November 1958, Yutaka Taniyama committed suicide by poisoning himself with gas.
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Yutaka Taniyama left a note explaining how far he had progressed with his teaching duties, and apologizing to his colleagues for the trouble he was causing them.
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Yutaka Taniyama's ideas had been criticized as unsubstantiated and his behavior had occasionally been deemed peculiar.
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Yutaka Taniyama was always kind to his colleagues, especially to his juniors, and he genuinely cared about their welfare.
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Yutaka Taniyama was the moral support of many of those who came into mathematical contact with him, including of course myself.
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Yutaka Taniyama was best known for conjecturing, in modern language, automorphic properties of L-functions of elliptic curves over any number field.
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Yutaka Taniyama's work has been influenced by Andre Weil, who had met Taniyama during the symposiums on algebraic number theory in 1955, in which he became famous after proposing his problems at it.
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Yutaka Taniyama was not a very careful person as a mathematician.