| Statue of Ken Shimura | |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Medium | Bronze sculpture |
| Subject | Ken Shimura |
| Location | Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan |
| 35°45′40.1″N139°27′58.2″E / 35.761139°N 139.466167°E | |
A bronze statue of Ken Shimura was unveiled in Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan, in 2021. [1]
Gorō Shimura was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties, as well as posing the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
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