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    Mikio Sato

    Mikio Sato (Japanese: 佐 藤 幹 夫 , Hepburn: Satō


    Mikio, 18 April 1928 – 9 January 2023) was a Japanese Mikio Sato
    mathematician known for founding the fields of Born 18 April 1928
    algebraic analysis, hyperfunctions, and holonomic Tokyo, Empire of Japan
    quantum fields. He was a professor at the Research Died 9 January 2023 (aged 94)
    Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto. Kyoto, Japan[1]
    Alma mater University of Tokyo (BSc,
    1952; PhD, 1963)
    Biography Known for Bernstein–Sato polynomials

    Born in Tokyo on 18 April 1928,[2] Sato studied at the Sato–Tate conjecture


    University of Tokyo, receiving his BSc in 1952 and Algebraic analysis
    PhD under Shokichi Iyanaga in 1963.[3][4] He was a Holonomic quantum field
    professor at Osaka University and the University of Hyperfunction
    Tokyo before moving to the Research Institute for
    Prehomogeneous vector
    Mathematical Sciences (RIMS) attached to Kyoto
    space
    University in 1970.[3] He was director of RIMS from
    1987 to 1991.[3] Awards Asahi Prize of Science (1969)
    Japan Academy Prize (1976)
    His disciples include Masaki Kashiwara, Takahiro
    Person of Cultural Merits
    Kawai, Tetsuji Miwa, as well as Michio Jimbo, who
    (1984)
    have been called the "Sato School".[5]
    Rolf Schock Prize in
    Sato died at home in Kyoto on 9 January 2023, aged Mathematics (1997)
    94.[6][1] Wolf Prize (2003)
    Scientific career
    Fields Mathematics
    Research
    Institutions Kyoto University
    Sato was known for his innovative work in a number University of Tokyo
    of fields, such as prehomogeneous vector spaces and Osaka University
    Bernstein–Sato polynomials; and particularly for his
    Thesis Theory of hyperfunctions
    hyperfunction theory.[3] This theory initially appeared
    (1963)
    as an extension of the ideas of distribution theory; it
    was soon connected to the local cohomology theory of Doctoral Shokichi Iyanaga
    Grothendieck, for which it was an independent advisor
    realisation in terms of sheaf theory. Further, it led to Doctoral Masaki Kashiwara · Takahiro
    the theory of microfunctions and microlocal analysis in students Kawai
    linear partial differential equations and Fourier theory,
    such as for wave fronts, and ultimately to the current developments in D-module theory.[2][7] Part of
    Sato's hyperfunction theory is the modern theory of holonomic systems: PDEs overdetermined to the
    point of having finite-dimensional spaces of solutions (algebraic analysis).[3]

    In theoretical physics, Sato wrote a series of papers in the 1970s with Michio Jimbo and Tetsuji Miwa
    that developed the theory of holonomic quantum fields.[2] When Sato was awarded the 2002–2003 Wolf
    Prize in Mathematics, this work was described as "a far-reaching extension of the mathematical
    formalism underlying the two-dimensional Ising model, and introduced along the way the famous tau
    functions."[2][3] Sato also contributed basic work to non-linear soliton theory, with the use of
    Grassmannians of infinite dimension.[3]

    In number theory, he and John Tate independently posed the Sato–Tate conjecture on L-functions around
    1960.[8]

    Pierre Schapira remarked, "Looking back, 40 years later, we realize that Sato's approach to mathematics
    is not so different from that of Grothendieck, that Sato did have the incredible temerity to treat analysis as
    algebraic geometry and was also able to build the algebraic and geometric tools adapted to his
    problems."[9]

    Awards and honours


    Sato received the 1969 Asahi Prize of Science, the 1976 Japan Academy Prize, the 1984 Person of
    Cultural Merits award of the Japanese Education Ministry, the 1997 Schock Prize, and the 2002–2003
    Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[3]

    Sato was a plenary speaker at the 1983 International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw.[3] He was
    elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.[3]

    Notes

    1. "佐藤幹夫氏死去（京都大名誉教授）" (https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2023011600560), 時
    事通信社, 18 January 2023
    2. "Mikio Sato – Biography" (https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sato/).
    MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 15 January
    2023.
    3. Jackson, Allyn (2003). "Sato and Tate Receive 2002–2003 Wolf Prize" (https://www.ams.org/
    notices/200305/comm-wolf.pdf) (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 50
    (5): 569–570.
    4. Mikio Sato (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=19282) at the Mathematics Genealogy
    Project
    5. McCoy, Barry M. (24 March 2011). "Mikio Sato and Mathematical Physics" (https://ems.pres
    s/journals/prims/articles/4467). Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical
    Sciences. 47 (1): 19–28. doi:10.2977/prims/30 (https://doi.org/10.2977%2Fprims%2F30).
    ISSN 0034-5318 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0034-5318). Retrieved 16 January 2023.
    6. "The untimely passing of Professor Emeritus Sato Mikio" (https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/e
    n/notice3.html). Retrieved 13 January 2023., Notice: Research Institute for Mathematical
    Sciences, Kyoto University (2023/01/13)
    7. Kashiwara, Masaki; Kawai, Takahiro (2011). "Professor Mikio Sato and Microlocal Analysis"
    (http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/show_pdf.php?issn=0034-5318&vol=47&iss=1&rank=2).
    Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 47 (1): 11–17.
    doi:10.2977/PRIMS/29 (https://doi.org/10.2977%2FPRIMS%2F29) – via EMS-PH.
    8. It is mentioned in J. Tate, Algebraic cycles and poles of zeta functions in the volume (O. F.
    G. Schilling, editor), Arithmetical Algebraic Geometry, pages 93–110 (1965).
    9. Schapira, Pierre (February 2007). "Mikio Sato, a Visionary of Mathematics" (https://web.arch
    ive.org/web/20200928023318/https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~pierre.schapira/mispapers/Sato.p
    df) (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 54 (2): 243–245. Archived from
    the original (https://www.ams.org/notices/200702/comm-schapira.pdf) (PDF) on 28
    September 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2023.

    External links
    Schock Prize citation (https://web.archive.org/web/20061214094433/http://www.math.uu.se/
    ~kiselman/sato1997.html)
    1990 Interview (https://www.ams.org/notices/200702/fea-sato-2.pdf) in the AMS Notices
    Mikio Sato, a Visionary of Mathematics (https://www.ams.org/notices/200702/comm-schapir
    a.pdf) by Pierre Schapira
    Memories of Mikio Sato (1928–2023) (https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202405/noti293
    1/noti2931.html), AMS Notices, (May 2024)

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