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 133,570 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Kunihiko Kodaira is the 284th most popular mathematician (up from 328th in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Japan (up from 627th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 284 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacques Charles François Sturm, George Atwood, Edward Waring, Lloyd Shapley, Abraham bar Hiyya, and John Edensor Littlewood. After him are Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, Marino Ghetaldi, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Michael Maestlin, and Pavel Alexandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 73. Before him are Geraldine of Albania, Tadeusz Kantor, Gretl Braun, Don Budge, Joseph Greenberg, and Georgy Sviridov. After him are Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kiyosi Itô, Thomas Merton, Arsenio Erico, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Alicia Rhett. Among people deceased in 1997, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 87. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne, Stig Anderson, Samuel Fuller, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Hastings Banda, and François Furet. After him are Giuseppe De Santis, Michael Hutchence, Kang Song-san, Andrés Rodríguez, Jacinto Quincoces, and Chiang Wei-kuo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 542 out of 6,245. Before him are Tsukasa Hosaka (1937), Hiranuma Kiichirō (1867), Yoshio Nishina (1890), Shotaro Ishinomori (1938), Chōsokabe Motochika (1539), and Arawa Kimura (1931). After him are Shumpei Inoue (null), Emperor Go-Murakami (1328), Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (1923), Masaoka Shiki (1867), Seiichi Itō (1890), and Emperor Go-Ichijō (1008).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Japan

Among mathematicians born in Japan, Kunihiko Kodaira ranks 2. Before him are Seki Takakazu (1642). After him are Kiyosi Itô (1915), Heisuke Hironaka (1931), Goro Shimura (1930), Yutaka Taniyama (1927), Mikio Sato (1928), Shigefumi Mori (1951), Kenkichi Iwasawa (1917), Yasumasa Kanada (1948), Shinichi Mochizuki (1969), and Christopher Zeeman (1925).

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