Background
Namioka was born in Tōno, not far from Namioka in the north of Honshu, Japan.
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Namioka was born in Tōno, not far from Namioka in the north of Honshu, Japan.
He attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a doctorate in 1956 under the supervision of John L. Kelley.
He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Washington. As a graduate student, Namioka married Chinese-American mathematics student Lensey Namioka, later to become a well-known novelist who used Namioka"s Japanese heritage in some of her novels. Namioka taught at Cornell University until 1963, when he moved to the University of Washington.
There he was the doctoral advisor to four students.
He has over 20 academic descendants, largely through his student Joseph Rosenblatt, who became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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