![]() ![]() As such, please take the following review with a grain of salt, as I lack the mathematical background to be more familiar with him and his work. I must admit, that before I read this book, the only information I had on Goro Shimura was what I had read regarding his conjecture on modular elliptic curves that Andrew Wiles proved to settle Fermat's Last Theorem. He is the author of Elementary Dirichlet Series and Modular Forms (Springer 2007), Arithmeticity in the Theory of Automorphic Forms (AMS 2000), and Introduction to the Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions (Princeton University Press 1971). Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society. ![]() Goro Shimura is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. Such luminaries as Chevalley, Oppenheimer, Siegel, and Weil figure prominently in its anecdotes. Every page of this memoir contains personal observations and striking stories. He describes his survival of American bombing raids when he was a teenager in Japan, his emergence as a researcher in a post-war university system that was seriously deficient, and his life as a mature mathematician in Princeton and in the international academic community. In this book, the author writes freely and often humorously about his life, beginning with his earliest childhood days. ![]()
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