Shigeru Mukai
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Born1953 (age 72–73)
AlmamaterKyoto University (Ph.D., 1982)
KnownforFourier–Mukai transform
Awards
- MSJ Autumn Prize (1996)
Chunichi Culture Award (中日文化賞) (2000)[1] - Osaka Prize (2003)
Shigeru Mukai | |
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 Mukai at Oberwolfach in 2012 | |
| Born | 1953 (age 72–73) |
| Alma mater | Kyoto University (Ph.D., 1982) |
| Known for | Fourier–Mukai transform |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Kyoto University Nagoya University |
Shigeru Mukai (向井 茂, Mukai Shigeru; born 1953) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University specializing in algebraic geometry.
He introduced the Fourier–Mukai transform in 1981 in a paper on abelian varieties, which also made up his doctoral thesis. His research since has included work on vector bundles on K3 surfaces, three-dimensional Fano varieties, moduli theory, and non-commutative Brill–Noether theory. He also found a new counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem (the first counterexample was found by Nagata in 1959).
