Shigefumi Mori

Shigefumi Mori
Born	(1951-02-23) February 23, 1951 (age 73) Nagoya, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kyoto University
Known for	Algebraic geometry minimal model program
Awards	Fields Medal (1990) Cole Prize (1990)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Nagoya University Kyoto University
Thesis	The Endomorphism Rings of Some Abelian Varieties  (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Masayoshi Nagata

Shigefumi Mori (森 重文, Mori Shigefumi, born February 23, 1951) is a Japanese

Career

Mori completed his Ph.D. titled "The Endomorphism Rings of Some Abelian Varieties" under Masayoshi Nagata at Kyoto University in 1978.^[1] He was a visiting professor at Harvard University during 1977–1980, the Institute for Advanced Study in 1981–82, Columbia University 1985–87 and the University of Utah for periods during 1987–89 and again during 1991–92. He has been a professor at Kyoto University since 1990.

Work

He generalized the classical approach to the classification of

He has been elected president of the International Mathematical Union, becoming the first head of the group from East Asia.^[2]

Awards

He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990 at the International Congress of Mathematicians.

In 2021, he received the Order of Culture.^[3]

Major publications

• Mori, Shigefumi (1979). "Projective Manifolds with Ample Tangent Bundles".
  JSTOR 1971241
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• Mori, Shigefumi; Mukai, Shigeru (1981). "Classification of Fano 3-folds with B₂≥2". Manuscripta Mathematica. 36 (2): 147–162.
  S2CID 189831516
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  • Mori, Shigefumi; Mukai, Shigeru (2003). "Classification of Fano 3-folds with B₂≥2. (Erratum)". Manuscripta Mathematica. 110 (3): 407.
    S2CID 121266346
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• Mori, Shigefumi (1982). "Threefolds Whose Canonical Bundles Are Not Numerically Effective". Annals of Mathematics. 116 (1): 133–176.
  JSTOR 2007050
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• Mori, Shigefumi (1988). "Flip theorem and the existence of minimal models for 3-folds".
  JSTOR 1990969
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• Kollár, János; Miyaoka, Yoichi; Mori, Shigefumi. Rationally connected varieties. J. Algebraic Geom. 1 (1992), no. 3, 429–448.
• Kollár, János; Miyaoka, Yoichi; Mori, Shigefumi (1992). "Rational connectedness and boundedness of Fano manifolds".
  S2CID 118102421
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• Kollár, János; Mori, Shigefumi (1992). "Classification of three-dimensional flips". Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 5 (3): 533–703.
  JSTOR 2152704
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• Keel, Sean; Mori, Shigefumi (1997). "Quotients by Groupoids". Annals of Mathematics. 145 (1): 193–213.
  S2CID 17830187
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• Kollár, János; Mori, Shigefumi. Birational geometry of algebraic varieties. With the collaboration of C. H. Clemens and A. Corti. Translated from the 1998 Japanese original. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 134. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. viii+254 pp.
  ISBN 0-521-63277-3