Shigeru Iitaka

Shigeru Iitaka is a Japanese mathematician at Gakushuin University working in algebraic geometry who introduced the Kodaira dimension, and Iitaka dimension. He was a world leader in the field of Algebraic geometry.
He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Tokyo under Kunihiko Kodaira with thesis「代数多様体のD-次元について」. He was awarded the Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical [Society of Japan] in 1980 and the Japan [Academy Prize |Japan Academy Prize] in 1990.