Shoshichi Kobayashi

Shoshichi Kobayashi (Japanese小林 昭 七, Kobayashi Shoshichi; born January 4, 1932 in Kofu in Japan, † 29 August 2012) was a Japanese mathematician who worked on differential geometry.

Life and work

Shoshichi Kobayashi studied at the University of Tokyo ( Bachelor 1953). 1953/54, he was at the University of Strasbourg and Paris. In 1956 he was at the University of Washington in Carl B. Allendoerfer PhD ( Theory of connections ). After that, he was from 1956 to 1958 at the Institute for Advanced Study. 1957 Kobayashi Research was an associate at the University of Chicago ( at Shiing - Shen Chern ) and 1958/59 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After he worked as Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1960, Kobayashi 1962 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1963 and 1966, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley; 1978 to 1981 he was chairman of the mathematics department.

Kobayashi was, inter alia, Visiting professor in Tokyo, MIT, in Mainz (1966) and Bonn (1969, 1977/78 ). 1964 to 1966 he was a Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow 1977-1978. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the Japanese, French and Swiss mathematical societies. In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( pseudo - distances intrinsèques sur les espaces complexes ).

Shoshichi Kobayashi employed, inter alia, to with transformation groups and differential geometry of complex spaces. He is the author of several well-known textbooks.

Writings

• Katsumi Nomizu Foundations of Differential Geometry, 2 volumes, Wiley 1963, 1969 ( reprint by Wiley Classics 1996)
• Transformation Groups in Differential Geometry, Springer, results of mathematics and its applications, 1972, Classics in Mathematics 1996
• Hyperbolic manifolds and holomorphic mappings, Dekker, 1970, World Scientific 2005
• Hyperbolic complex space, Springer 2007
• Differential geometry of complex vector bundles, Princeton University Press 1987