is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

working in

mathematical physics Mathematical physics is the development of mathematics, mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The ''Journal of Mathematical Physics'' defines the field as "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the de ...

and is a professor of mathematics at

Rikkyo University , also known as Saint Paul's University, is a private university, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan. Rikkyo is one of the five MARCH (Japanese universities), MARCH universities, the group of private universities in the Kantō region, Kanto region, toge ...

. He is a grandson of the

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

Career

After graduating from the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

in 1974, he studied under

Mikio Sato was a Japanese mathematician known for founding the fields of algebraic analysis, hyperfunctions, and holonomic quantum fields. He was a professor at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto. Biography Born in Tokyo on 18 A ...

at the

Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences The is a research institute attached to Kyoto University, hosting researchers in the mathematical sciences from all over Japan. RIMS was founded in April 1963. List of directors * Masuo Fukuhara (1963.5.1 – 1969.3.31) * Kōsaku Yosida (1969 ...

Kyoto University , or , is a National university, national research university in Kyoto, Japan. Founded in 1897, it is one of the former Imperial Universities and the second oldest university in Japan. The university has ten undergraduate faculties, eighteen gra ...

. He has made important contributions to

, including (independently of

Vladimir Drinfeld Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a mathematician from Ukraine, who immigrated to the United States and works at the University of Chicago. Drinfeld's work connected algebraic geome ...

) the initial development of the study of

quantum group In mathematics and theoretical physics, the term quantum group denotes one of a few different kinds of noncommutative algebras with additional structure. These include Drinfeld–Jimbo type quantum groups (which are quasitriangular Hopf algebra ...

s, the development of the theory of

\tau

-functions for the KP ( Kadomtsev–Petviashvili) integrable hierarchy, and other related integrable hierarchies , E. Date, M. Jimbo, M. Kashiwara and T. Miwa, "Operator approach to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation III". ''J. Phys. Soc. Jap.'' 50 (11): 3806–3812 (1981). doi:10.1143/JPSJ.50.3806. M. Jimbo and T. Miwa, "Solitons and infinite-dimensional Lie algebras", ''Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci.'', 19(3):943–1001 (1983). and development of the theory of

isomonodromic deformation In mathematics, the equations governing the isomonodromic deformation of meromorphic linear systems of ordinary differential equations are, in a fairly precise sense, the most fundamental exact nonlinear differential equations. As a result, their ...

systems for rational covariant derivative operators. M. Jimbo, T. Miwa, and K. Ueno, "Monodromy Preserving Deformation of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations with Rational Coefficients I", ''Physica D,'' 2, 306–352 (1981)

Awards

In 1993 he won the Japan Academy Prize for this work.List of Japan Academy Prize recipients
In 2010 he received the

Wigner Medal The International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (ICGTMP) is an academic conference devoted to applications of group theory to physics. It was founded in 1972 by Henri Bacry and Aloysio Janner. It hosts a colloquium every tw ...

Selected books

* with Tetsuji Miwa, Etsurō Date: ''Solitons – differential equations, symmetries and infinite dimensional algebras''.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

2000, * with Tetsuji Miwa: ''Algebraic analysis of solvable lattice models''.

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

1993, * Editor: ''Yang-Baxter Equation in integrable systems''.

World Scientific World Scientific Publishing is an academic publisher of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals headquartered in Singapore. The company was founded in 1981. It publishes about 600 books annually, with more than 170 journals in var ...

1990,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jimbo, Michio 1951 births Living people 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 21st-century Japanese mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Tokyo Academic staff of Kyoto University University of Tokyo alumni Kyoto University alumni Japanese mathematical physicists Scientists from Chiba Prefecture