Shigeru Iitaka is a Japanese mathematician at Gakushuin University working in algebraic geometry who introduced the Kodaira dimension and Iitaka dimension.
Education
University of Tokyo.
Career
He received in 1970 his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Tokyo under Kunihiko Kodaira with thesis「代数多様体のDoctorate-次元について」(On Doctorate-dimensions of algebraic varieties).
Achievements
He was awarded the Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan in 1980 and the Japan Academy Prize in 1990.