Nobuo Yoneda

Nobuo Yoneda (Japanese米 田 信 夫, Nobuo Yoneda, born March 28, 1930; † 22 April 1996) was a Japanese mathematician and computer scientist.

Life

After Yoneda had in 1952 a graduate of the Mathematics department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo, where he became assistant professor.

From 1956 to 1959 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) and also undertook research trips to Great Britain and France. In 1962 he became a lecturer at Gakushuin University and there promoted to Professor in 1966.

After the founding of the Institute of computer science in 1971 at the Faculty of Science of the University of Tokyo, he was there in the following year professor of theoretical foundations of computer science. After his retirement in 1990 he moved to the University of Tōkyō Denki Daigaku and taught there until March 1996.

Scientific work

Yoneda had two scientific sides. As a mathematician, he has dealt with category theory and homological algebra. Going to him the Yoneda lemma and the concept behind the Yoneda embedding. As a computer scientist, he played a major role in the design and implementation of the programming language Algol N, which was a successor to Algol 60. Yoneda was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing and co-editor of the journals Science of Computer Programming and Acta Informatica.

Swell

• Eiiti Wada, Akinori Yonezawa: Professor Nobuo Yoneda (28 March 1930-22 April 1996). Science of Computer Programming, Vol 27 (3), November 1996.

• Mathematicians ( 20th century)
• University teachers (University of Tokyo)
• Japanese
• Born in 1930
• Died in 1996
• Man