Michio Kuga

Michio Kuga (Japanese久 贺 道 郎, Michio Kuga, * 1928; † 13 February 1990) was a Japanese mathematician who dealt with algebraic geometry.

Kuga was awarded his doctorate in 1960 at Shokichi Iyanaga at the University of Tokyo. He was a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

It dealt among other things with the Ramanunjan - Petersson conjecture that from the proof of the Weil conjectures ( definitively proven in 1974 by Pierre Deligne ) follow as Kuga with Goro Shimura, Mikio Sato, Yasutaka Ihara and Deligne showed previously.

In 1966 he led a named after him Kuga fiber spaces.

In 1967 he published in Japan a book about Galois theory of differential equations ( Fuchsian differential equations and their monodromy ), emerged from lectures at the University of Tokyo. It was at that time because of unusually Kugas use of cartoons, but had success with students and appeared in English translation in 1993.

His doctoral include Allan Adler and Stephen Kudla.

Writings

• Galois ' Dream: Group theory and differential equations. Birkhäuser, 1993