Heisuke Hironaka

Heisuke Hironaka
Born (1931-04-09) April 9, 1931 (age 93)
Yuu-chō, Kuga-Gun, Yamaguchi, Japan
(modern-day Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto University (BA)
Harvard University (PhD)
SpouseWakako Hironaka (née Kimoto)
AwardsAsahi Prize (1967)
Fields Medal (1970)
Order of Culture (1975)
Legion of Honour (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBrandeis University
Harvard University
Columbia University
Kyoto University
ThesisOn the Theory of Birational Blowing-up (1960)
Doctoral advisorOscar Zariski
Doctoral studentsJosé Manuel Aroca Hernández-Ros
Charles Barton, III
Dave Bayer
Bruce Bennett
Max Benson
Jacob E. Goodman
William Haboush
Jerome Hoffman
Audun Holme
Monique Lejeune-Jalabert
Takehiko Miyata
Loren Olson
Mary Schaps
Andrew Schwartz
Mark Spivakovsky [de]
Allen Tannenbaum
Bernard Teissier
Philip Wagreich
Boris Youssin

Heisuke Hironaka (広中 平祐, Hironaka Heisuke, born April 9, 1931) is a Japanese mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970 for his contributions to algebraic geometry.[1]

  1. ^ "Fields Medallists". Kyoto University. Archived from the original on December 2, 2023. Retrieved March 10, 2014.