Sigekatu Kuroda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Sigekatu Kuroda

Japanese mathematician

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1905

Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1972

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sigekatu Kuroda (?? ??, Kuroda Shigekatsu, 11 November 1905 – 3 November 1972) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in number theory and mathematical logic. In 1942 he became a professor at the newly founded Nagoya Imperial University, where he stayed for over twenty years.
He is responsible for much of the effort in setting up its Department of Mathematics.He was married to the renowned number theorist Teiji Takagi's daughter Yakeo.
The couple had three sons, all of whom became mathematicians, including S.-Y.
Kuroda, who was a professor of linguistics at University of California, San Diego.He published a text on Foundations of Number Theory with Tomio Kubota in 1963.