was a Japanese

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who introduced the notion of

Azumaya algebra In mathematics, an Azumaya algebra is a generalization of central simple algebras to R-algebras where R need not be a field. Such a notion was introduced in a 1951 paper of Goro Azumaya, for the case where R is a commutative local ring. The notion ...

in 1951. His advisor was

Shokichi Iyanaga was a Japanese people, Japanese mathematician. Early life Iyanaga was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 2, 1906. He studied at the University of Tokyo from 1926 to 1929. He studied under Teiji Takagi. As an undergraduate, he published two papers in ...

. At the time of his death he was an emeritus professor at

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Biography of Azumaya
by BiRep, Bielefeld University 1920 births 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 21st-century Japanese mathematicians Algebraists Indiana University faculty 2010 deaths Nagoya University alumni Japanese expatriates in the United States Scientists from Yokohama {{Asia-mathematician-stub