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About Masahiko Fujiwara
- Masahiko Fujiwara (Japanese: ?? ?? Fujiwara Masahiko; born July 9, 1943 in Shinkyo, Manchukuo (now China)) is a Japanese mathematician, who is best known as an essayist. He comes from a cultured family: his father Jiro Nitta and mother Tei Fujiwara were both popular authors.
- He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1966.
- He began writing after a two-year position as associate professor at the University of Colorado, with a book Wakaki sugakusha no Amerika designed to explain American campus life to Japanese people.
- He also wrote about the University of Cambridge, after a year's visit (Harukanaru Kenburijji: Ichi sugakusha no Igirisu).
- In a popular book on mathematics, he categorized theorems as beautiful theorems or ugly theorems.
- He is also known in Japan for speaking out against government reforms in secondary education.
- He wrote The Dignity of a State, which according to Time Asia was the second best selling book in the first six months of 2006 in Japan [1].
- In 2006 he published Yo ni mo utsukushii sugaku nyumon ("An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics") with the writer Yoko Ogawa: it is a dialogue between novelist and mathematician on the extraordinary beauty of numbers. As a mathematician, he is a professor emeritus at Ochanomizu University.
- His major work is on Diophantine equations.
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