nLab Gorō Shimura

Gorō Shimura (ja. 志村 五郎, 23 Feb. 1930 – 3 May 2019) was a Japanese mathematician, famous for the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture (later known as the modularity theorem after proven by Andrew Wiles).

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Selected writings

• Gorō Shimura, Yutaka Taniyama, Complex multiplication of abelian varieties and its applications to number theory (1961), Publications of the Mathematical Society of Japan, vol. 6, Tokyo: The Mathematical Society of Japan, MR 0125113

• Gorō Shimura, Automorphic Functions and Number Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics (1968), Vol. 54 (Paperback ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-04224-2.

• Gorō Shimura, Introduction to the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions (1 August 1971) (Paperback ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08092-5.

• Gorō Shimura, Euler Products and Eisenstein Series (1 July 1997), CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics (Paperback ed.). American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-0574-9.

• Gorō Shimura, Abelian Varieties with Complex Multiplication and Modular Functions (Hardcover ed.) (1997), Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-01656-6.

• Gorō Shimura, Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms (22 August 2000), Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (Paperback ed.). American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-2671-3.

• Gorō Shimura, Arithmetic and Analytic Theories of Quadratic Forms and Clifford Groups (1 March 2004). Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (Hardcover ed.). American Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-3573-9.

• Gorō Shimura, Elementary Dirichlet Series and Modular Forms (2007). Springer Monographs in Mathematics (Hardcover ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-72473-7.

• Gorō Shimura, Arithmetic of Quadratic Forms (15 July 2010). Springer Monographs in Mathematics (Hardcover ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-1731-7.

Collected papers:

• Gorō Shimura, Collected Papers I: 1954–1965 (Hardcover ed.) (2002). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95406-6.
• Gorō Shimura. Collected Papers II: 1967–1977 (Hardcover ed.) (2002). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95416-5.
• Gorō Shimura, Collected Papers III: 1978–1988 (Hardcover ed.) (2003). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95417-2.
• Gorō Shimura, Collected Papers IV: 1989–2001 (Hardcover ed.) (2003). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95418-9.

Related entries

• Taniyama-Shimura conjecture
• Shimura variety

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