# Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Japan

For more comprehensive information on the lives and works of mathematicians through the ages, see the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, created by John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson.

The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

## Japan

##### Soichi Kakeya (1886 – 1947)

Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in mathematical analysis

Posed the Kakeya Problem.

Solved a version of the Transportation Problem.
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##### Jun-iti Nagata (1925 – 2007)

Japanese mathematician specializing in topology.
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##### Gaisi Takeuti (1926 – 2017)

Japanese mathematician specialising in logic and set theory.
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##### Michio Suzuki (1926 – 1998)

Japanese mathematician who studied group theory.
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##### Masayoshi Nagata (1927 – 2008)

Japanese mathematician who worked mainly in the field of commutative algebra.
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##### Nobuo Yoneda (1930 – 1996)

Japanese mathematician and computer scientist who worked in category theory and homological algebra.
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##### Nobuyuki Yoshigahara (1936 – 2004)

Japanese inventor, collector, solver, and communicator of puzzles.
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##### Yasumasa Kanada (b. 1949 )

Japanese mathematician most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of $\pi$.

He has set the record $11$ of the past $21$ times.
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