Katsumi Nomizu

Nomizu, Katsumi (Japanese野 水 克己; born December 1, 1924 in Osaka, † November 5, 2008 in Providence (Rhode Iceland ) ) was a Japanese mathematician who dealt with differential geometry.

Nomizu studied at the University of Osaka with the conclusion of 1947. Afterwards he was at the Sorbonne and at the University of Chicago in SS Chern, where he received his doctorate in 1953 ( Invariant affine connections on homogeneous spaces ). In 1955, he received his fourth again at Nagoya University and taught then at the Catholic University in Osaka. From 1960 he was an associate professor and in 1963 professor at Brown University. In 1963 he published the first volume with Shoshichi Kobayashi their textbook Foundations of Differential Geometry, which became a standard work. He was one of the founders of the first American- Japanese Seminar on differential geometry in Kyoto in 1965.

In 1991 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award and in 1997 Wilhelm Blaschke medal.

For the American Mathematical Society, he published several volumes of translations from the magazine " Sugaku " Japanese Mathematical Society.

He was married and had four children.

Writings

• Lie groups and differential geometry, Publ Mathematical Society of Japan, Volume 2, 1956
• With Shoshichi Kobayashi: Foundations of Differential Geometry, 2 volumes, Wiley- Interscience, 1963, 1969 ( reprint by Wiley Classics 1996)
• Fundamentals of Linear Algebra, McGraw Hill 1966
• With Takeshi Sasaki: Affine differential geometry: geometry of affine immersions, Cambridge University Press 2004