Mathematician:Kunihiko Kodaira

Mathematician

Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds.

Founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers.

Fields Medal

Kunihiko Kodaira was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1954}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, Netherlands:

Achieved major results in the theory of harmonic integrals and numerous applications to Kählerian and more specifically to algebraic varieties. He demonstrated, by sheaf cohomology, that such varieties are Hodge manifolds.

Wolf Prize

Kunihiko Kodaira was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {1984/85}$:

For his outstanding contributions to the study of complex manifolds and algebraic varieties.

Nationality

Japanese

History

• Born: March 16, 1915 in Tokyo, Japan
• Died: July 26, 1997 in Kōfu, Japan

Theorems and Definitions

• Bochner-Kodaira-Nakano Identity (with Salomon Bochner and Shigeo Nakano)
• Kodaira Vanishing Theorem
• Kodaira Embedding Theorem

• Kodaira Dimension
• Kodaira Surface
• Kodaira's Classification of Singular Fibers

• Kodaira-Spencer Mapping (with Donald Clayton Spencer)
• Enriques-Kodaira Classification (with Federigo Enriques)

Results named for Kunihiko Kodaira can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Kunihiko Kodaira can be found here.

Publications

• 1949: Harmonic Fields in Riemannian Manifolds (Generalized Potential Theory (Ann. Math. Vol. 50, no. 3: pp. 587 – 665)  www.jstor.org/stable/1969552

• 1971: Complex Manifolds
• 1977: Complex Analysis

Also known as

In Japanese: 小平 邦彦

Also rendered: Kodaira Kunihiko

Also see

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Kunihiko Kodaira": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive