Kazuya Kato

Kazuya Katō (Japanese加藤 和 也, Katō Kazuya, born January 17, 1952 in Wakayama Prefecture ) is a Japanese mathematician who deals with arithmetic algebraic geometry and number theory.

Katō grew up in Wakayama Prefecture and attended the University of Tokyo, where in 1975 he took his bachelor's degree in 1977 and his diploma. In 1980 he completed his doctorate there in Yasutaka Ihara and in 1982 lecturer. In 1984 he became assistant professor in 1990 and professor. In 1992 he moved to the Tokyo Institute of Technology, came back in 1997 to the University of Tokyo and went to the University of Kyoto in 2001.

Katō is regarded as one of the leading number theorists. He worked among others on higher-dimensional generalizations of the local class field theory ( in the 1980s, partly with Shuji Saitō ), p- adic Hodge theory, special values ​​of L - functions ( Bloch- Kato conjectures ) and the Iwasawa theory.

In 1988 he received the Prize of the Japanese spring Mathematical Society, 1995 Inoue Prize and in 2005 the Gakushiin price. In 2006 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( Iwasawa Theory and Generalizations ), 1990 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Kyoto ( Generalized class field theory ) and in 2002 in Beijing ( Tamagawa number conjecture for zeta values).

His doctoral include Takeshi Saitō and Masato Kurihara.

Writings

• Kazuya Kato, Nobushige Kurokawa, Takeshi Saito: Number Theory 1: Fermat 's Dream. American Mathematical Society, Providence 1993, ISBN 0-8218-0863- X.