Takahiro Shiota (塩田 隆比呂, Shiota Takahiro) is a Japanese mathematician at Kyoto University. In 1986, he proved Novikov's conjecture about the Riemann–Schottky problem by characterization of Jacobian varieties.[1]

Takahiro Shiota
Alma materHarvard University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsKyoto University

Shiota obtained his doctorate at Harvard University in 1984.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Shiota, Takahiro (1986). "Characterization of Jacobian varieties in terms of soliton equations". Inventiones Mathematicae. 83 (2): 333–382. Bibcode:1986InMat..83..333S. doi:10.1007/BF01388967. S2CID 120739493.
  2. ^ Harvard Mathematics Department Dissertations