Shizuo Kakutani
| Shizuo Kakutani | |
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Shizuo Kakutani in 1970
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| Native name | 角谷 静夫 |
| Born |
August 28, 1911 Ōsaka |
| Died | August 17, 2004 (aged 92) New Haven, Connecticut |
| Nationality | Japanese American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yale University |
| Alma mater | Tohoku University |
| Doctoral advisor | Shimizu Tatsujirō[] |
| Doctoral students |
Roy Adler Robert M. Anderson Anatole Beck Alexandra Bellow Arshag Hajian James Rovnyak |
| Known for | Kakutani fixed-point theorem |
Shizuo Kakutani (角谷 静夫 Kakutani Shizuo?, August 28, 1911 in Ōsaka – August 17, 2004 in New Haven, Connecticut) was a Japanese-American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem.
Kakutani attended Tohoku University in Sendai, where his advisor was Tatsujirō Shimizu. At one point he spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton at the invitation of the mathematician Hermann Weyl. While there, he also met John von Neumann.
Kakutani received his Ph.D. in 1941 from Osaka University and taught there through World War II. He returned to the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948, and was given a professorship by Yale in 1949, where he won a students choice award for excellence in teaching.
Kakutani received two awards of the Japan Academy, the Imperial Prize and the Academy Prize in 1982, for his scholarly achievements in general and his work on functional analysis in particular.
His daughter, Michiko Kakutani, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic for the New York Times.
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