Kenji Fukaya

Kenji Fukaya
深谷賢治
Kenji Fukaya 2010
Born
Kanagawa prefecture, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Alma materUniversity of Tokyo
Known forFukaya category
Kuranishi structure
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsSimons Center for Geometry and Physics
Stony Brook University
Tsinghua University

Kenji Fukaya (Japanese: 深谷賢治, Fukaya Kenji) is a Japanese mathematician known for his work in symplectic geometry and Riemannian geometry.[1] His many fundamental contributions to mathematics include the discovery of the Fukaya category. He was a permanent faculty member at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and a professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University before leaving for Tsinghua University. [2]

  1. ^ "Kenji Fukaya | SCGP". Scgp.stonybrook.edu. 2013-04-01. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
  2. ^ "Respected mathematician Kenji Fukaya leaves US for China's Tsinghua University". South China Morning Post. 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2024-09-19.