Kenkichi iwasawa biography of albert

He attended elementary school there, but later moved to Tokyo to attend Musashi High School. From to Iwasawa studied as an undergraduate at Tokyo Imperial University , after which he entered graduate school at University of Tokyo and became an assistant in the Department of Mathematics.

Kenkichi iwasawa biography of albert: Memories of Professor Iwasawa, (Ralph Greenberg);

In he was awarded a Doctor of Science degree. However, this same year Iwasawa became sick with pleurisy , and was unable to return to his position at the university until April From to he worked as assistant professor at Tokyo University. In , Iwasawa was invited to Cambridge, Massachusetts to give a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians on his method to study Dedekind zeta functions using integration over ideles and duality of adeles; this method was also independently obtained by John Tate and is sometimes called Iwasawa—Tate theory.

Iwasawa spent the next two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , and in Spring of was offered a job at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he worked until From until his retirement in , Iwasawa served as Professor of Mathematics at Princeton. He returned to Tokyo with his wife in Among Iwasawa's most famous students are Robert F.

Iwasawa is known for introducing what is now called Iwasawa theory , which developed from researches on cyclotomic fields from the later s.