Shigeru Mukai

Shigeru Mukai
Mukai at Oberwolfach in 2012
Born1953
NationalityJapanese
Alma materKyoto University (Ph.D., 1982)
Known forFourier–Mukai transform
Awards
  • MSJ Autumn Prize (1996)
    Chunichi Culture Award (中日文化賞) (2000)[1]
  • Osaka Prize (2003)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsKyoto University
Nagoya University

Shigeru Mukai (向井 茂, Mukai Shigeru, born 1953) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University specializing in algebraic geometry.

Work

He introduced the Fourier–Mukai transform in 1981 in a paper on abelian varieties, which also made up his doctoral thesis. His research since has included work on vector bundles on K3 surfaces, three-dimensional Fano varieties, moduli theory, and non-commutative Brill–Noether theory. He also found a new counterexample to Hilbert's 14th problem (the first counterexample was found by Nagata in 1959).

Publications

References

  1. ^ 第51回~第60回受賞者 [Award winners: 51st – 60th]. The Chunichi Shimbun (in Japanese). Japan. Retrieved 4 December 2012.