Mathematician:Masayoshi Nagata

Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in the field of commutative algebra.

Nationality
Japanese

History

 * Born: February 9, 1927, Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
 * Died: August 27, 2008, Kyoto, Japan

Theorems and Definitions

 * Nagata Criterion


 * Nagata Ring
 * Nagata-Smirnov Metrization Theorem (with Yuri Mikhailovich Smirnov)
 * Nagata-Biran Conjecture (with Paul Biran)
 * Nagata's Conjecture on Curves

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1962: Local Rings: Interscience Tracts in Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 13