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MATHEMATICIAN

Kunihiko Kodaira

1915 - 1997

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Kunihiko Kodaira (小平 邦彦, Kodaira Kunihiko, Japanese pronunciation: [kodaꜜiɾa kɯɲiꜜçi̥ko], 16 March 1915 – 26 July 1997) was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kunihiko Kodaira has received more than 122,806 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Kunihiko Kodaira is the 328th most popular mathematician (up from 347th in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from Japan (up from 685th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 328 out of 823. Before him are Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Isaac Beeckman, Pierre Alphonse Laurent, John Milnor, and Sergei Sobolev. After him are Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Jean Dieudonné, Guidobaldo del Monte, Richard Courant, George Green, and Gerhard Gentzen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 83. Before him are Ross Macdonald, C. W. Ceram, Georgy Sviridov, Kiyosi Itô, Loris Francesco Capovilla, and Edmond O'Brien. After him are Arsenio Erico, Kon Ichikawa, Carmen Herrera, Gretl Braun, Nguyễn Văn Linh, and John Vorster. Among people deceased in 1997, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 93. Before him are Jean-Dominique Bauby, Allan Edwall, Lyman Spitzer, Héctor Yazalde, Michael Hutchence, and Andrés Rodríguez. After him are Teiichi Matsumaru, Ho Feng-Shan, Chiang Wei-kuo, Anatoli Boukreev, Amha Selassie, and Uzi Narkiss.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 629 out of 6,048. Before him are Yuriko Koike (1952), Kenji Tochio (1941), Uesugi Kagekatsu (1556), Daisaku Ikeda (1928), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), and Chōjun Miyagi (1888). After him are Yoshida Shōin (1830), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Teiichi Matsumaru (1909), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Isamu Chō (1895), and Yoshio Furukawa (1934).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 3. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642) and Kiyosi Itô (1915). After him are Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Mikio Sato (1928), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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