Takeo Nakasawa
Takeo Nakasawa | |
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Born |
Koichi prefecture, Japan | February 5, 1913
Died |
June 20, 1946 33) Khabarovsk, Soviet Union | (aged
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | Mathematician |
Known for | Inventor of the theory of matroids |
Takeo Nakasawa (February 5, 1913, Koichi prefecture, Japan – June 20, 1946, Khabarovsk, Soviet Union) was a Japanese mathematician who independently invented the theory of matroids, though his work was forgotten for many years.
References
- Nishimura, Hirokazu; Kuroda, Susumu, eds. (2009), A lost mathematician, Takeo Nakasawa. The forgotten father of matroid theory, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7643-8572-9, MR 2516551
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