Tosio Kato

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Tosio Kato
University of California at Berkeley
Doctoral advisorKwan-ichi Terazawa

Tosio Kato (加藤 敏夫, Katō Toshio, August 25, 1917 – October 2, 1999) was a Japanese mathematician who worked with partial differential equations, mathematical physics and functional analysis.

Kato studied physics and received his undergraduate degree in 1941 at the

University of California at Berkeley
in the United States.

Many works of Kato are related to mathematical physics. In 1951, he showed the self-adjointness of

Navier–Stokes equation.[1][2]
Kato is also known for his influential book Perturbation theory of linear operators, published by Springer-Verlag.

In 1980, he won the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics from AMS and SIAM. In 1970, he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Nice (scattering theory and perturbation of continuous spectra).

Publications

  • Perturbation theory of linear operators. Principles of Mathematical Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 1966, 1976.
  • A short introduction to the perturbation theory of linear operators. Springer-Verlag 1982.

See also

References

  1. ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Tosio Kato", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  2. ^ "Tosio Kato (1917—1999)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, June/July, 2000

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