Toshikazu Sunada

Toshikazu Sunada
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Tokyo, Japan
Alma materTokyo Institute of Technology
Awards
  • 1987 Iyanaga Award of Mathematical Society of Japan
  • 2013 Publication Prize of Mathematical Society of Japan
  • 2017 Hiroshi Fujiwara Prize for Mathematical Sciences
  • 2018 Prize for Science and Technology (the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
  • 2019 the 1st Kodaira Kunihiko Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics (Spectral geometry and discrete geometric analysis)
InstitutionsNagoya University
Tokyo University
Tohoku University
Meiji University

Toshikazu Sunada (砂田 利一, Sunada Toshikazu, born September 7, 1948) is a Japanese mathematician and author of many books and essays on mathematics and mathematical sciences. He is professor emeritus of both Meiji University and Tohoku University. He is also distinguished professor of emeritus at Meiji in recognition of achievement over the course of an academic career. Before he joined Meiji University in 2003, he was professor of mathematics at Nagoya University (1988–1991), at the University of Tokyo (1991–1993), and at Tohoku University (1993–2003). Sunada was involved in the creation of the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences at Meiji University and is its first dean (2013–2017). Since 2019, he is President of Mathematics Education Society of Japan.