Tadashi Nakayama (mathematician)

Tadashi Nakayama or Tadasi Nakayama (中山 正, Nakayama Tadashi, July 26, 1912, Tokyo Prefecture – June 5, 1964, Nagoya) was a mathematician who made important contributions to representation theory. He received his degrees from Tokyo University and Osaka University and held permanent positions at Osaka University and Nagoya University. He had visiting positions at Princeton University, Illinois University, and Hamburg University. Nakayama's lemma and Nakayama algebras and Nakayama's conjecture are named after him.

Selected works

• Nakayama, Tadasi (1939), "On Frobeniusean algebras. I", Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Annals of Mathematics) 40 (3): 611–633, doi:10.2307/1968946, JSTOR 1968946, MR 0000016 
• Nakayama, Tadasi (1941), "On Frobeniusean algebras. II", Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Annals of Mathematics) 42 (1): 1–21, doi:10.2307/1968984, JSTOR 1968984, MR 0004237 

References

• "Obituary: Tadasi Nakayama", Nagoya Mathematical Journal 27, 1966: i–vii. (1 plate), ISSN 0027-7630, MR 0191789 

External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Tadashi Nakayama", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
• Tadasi Nakayama at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/birep/collect/nakayama.html