Goro Shimura Quotes

Gorō Shimura was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties, as well as posing the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Wikipedia

✵ 23. February 1930 – 3. May 2019

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Goro Shimura Quotes

“The Fourier expansion of an elliptic modular form has been fruitfully utilized in various arithmetical problems as well as in the study of the analytic properties of the form itself. The same can be said also for the Hilbert and Siegel modular forms.”

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[The arithmetic of forms with respect to a unitary group, Annals of Mathematics, 107, 1978, 569–605, https://books.google.com/books?id=f8gB564cK68C&pg=PA38]

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“The maxim "A university professor is the next easiest profession after a beggar" really rings true.”

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[The Map of My Life, 2008, 7, https://books.google.com/books?id=eYuojP7kgvkC&pg=PA7]

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