Kentaro Yano (1 March 1912 in Tokyo, Japan – 25 December 1993) was a mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Bochner–Yano theorem. He also published a classical book about geometric objects (i.e., sections of natural fiber bundles) and

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s of these objects.

Publications

* Les espaces à connexion projective et la géométrie projective des paths, Iasi, 1938 * Geometry of Structural Forms (Japanese), 1947 * Groups of Transformations in Generalized Spaces, Tokyo, Akademeia Press, 1949 * with Salomon Bochner
Curvature and Betti Numbers
Princeton University Press, Annals of Mathematical Studies, 1953 *
2020 reprint
* Differential geometry on complex and almost complex spaces, Macmillan, New York 1965 * Integral formulas in Riemannian Geometry, Marcel Dekker, New York 1970 * with Shigeru Ishihara: Tangent and cotangent bundles: differential geometry, New York, M. Dekker 1973 * with Masahiro Kon: Anti-invariant submanifolds, Marcel Dekker, New York 1976 * Morio Obata (ed.)
Selected papers of Kentaro Yano
North Holland 1982 * with Masahiro Kon: CR Submanifolds of Kählerian and Sasakian Manifolds, Birkhäuser 19832012 reprint
* with Masahiro Kon: Structures on Manifolds, World Scientific 1984

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yano, Kentaro Differential geometers 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 1993 deaths 1912 births