Yutaka Nishiyama
Yutaka Nishiyama is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the Osaka University of Economics, where he teaches mathematics and information. He is known as the "boomerang professor". He has written nine books about the mathematics in daily life. The most recent one, The mystery of five in nature, investigates, amongst other things, why many flowers have five petals.
Biography
- 1967-1971: Faculty of Mathematics, Department of Science, Kyoto University
- 1971-1985: IBM Japan as a Systems Engineer
- 1985: Lecturer of Information Mathematics at Osaka University of Economics
- 1995–present: Professor at Osaka University of Economics
- 2005-2006: Visiting fellow at University of Cambridge, UK, joined for MMP.
Books
- , Oxford University Press, May 2014,
- , Gendai Sugakusha, July 2013,
Papers
- IJPAM, Vol. 58, No. 1,. 113–124.
- IJPAM, Vol. 56, No. 3,. 429–438.
Articles for Plus Magazine
- , Plus Magazine, issue 36, University of Cambridge, September 2005.
- , Plus Magazine, issue 38, University of Cambridge, March 2006.
- , with Steve Humble, Plus Magazine, issue 55, University of Cambridge, June 2010.
- , Plus Magazine, University of Cambridge, Feb 2012.
- , Plus Magazine, University of Cambridge, May 2014.