Goro Azumaya
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was a Japan
ese mathematician
who introduced the notion of Azumaya algebra
in 1951. His advisor was Shokichi Iyanaga
. At the time of his death he was an emeritus professor at Indiana University.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
who introduced the notion of Azumaya algebra
Azumaya algebra
In mathematics, an Azumaya algebra is a generalization of central simple algebras to R-algebras where R need not be a field. Such a notion was introduced in a 1951 paper of Goro Azumaya, for the case where R is a commutative local ring...
in 1951. His advisor was Shokichi Iyanaga
Shokichi Iyanaga
was a Japanese mathematician.-Early life:Iyanaga was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 2, 1906. He studied at the University of Tokyo from 1926 to 1929. He studied under Teiji Takagi. As an undergraduate, he published two papers in the Japanese Journal of Mathematics and the Proceedings of the Imperial...
. At the time of his death he was an emeritus professor at Indiana University.