Kiyoshi Oka

Japanese mathematician who worked in the theory of several complex variables (1901-1978)

Kiyoshi Oka (Japanese: 岡 潔, Oka Kiyoshi, April 19, 1901 – March 1, 1978) was a Japanese mathematician who made the theory of complex analysis with several variables. Therefore, there are some theorems named after him in this field.

Kiyoshi Oka
岡 潔
Kyoshi Oka, Kyoto 1973
Born(1901-04-19)April 19, 1901
DiedMarch 1, 1978(1978-03-01) (aged 76)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto Imperial University
Known forOka coherence theorem
Oka's lemma
AwardsAsahi Prize (1953)
Japan Academy Prize (1951)
Order of Culture (1960)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsKyoto Imperial University
Hiroshima University
Hokkaido University
Nara Women's University

Bibliography change

  • Oka, Kiyoshi (1961). Sur les fonctions analytiques de plusieurs variables (in French). Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami Shoten. p. 234. - Includes bibliographical references.
  • Oka, Kiyoshi (1983). Sur les fonctions analytiques de plusieurs variables (in French) (Nouv. ed. augmentee. ed.). Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami. p. 246.
  • Oka, Kiyoshi (1984). Reinhold Remmert (ed.). Kiyoshi Oka Collected Papers. Translated by Raghavan Narasimhan. Commentary: Henri Carta]. Springer-Verlag. p. 223. ISBN 0-387-13240-6.

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