Kiiti Morita

Kiiti Morita (森田紀一, Morita Kiichi, February 11, 1915 – August 4, 1995) was a Japanese mathematician working in algebra and topology.

Born in Hamamatsu, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Osaka in 1950 and was professor at the University of Tsukuba.

He introduced the concepts now known as Morita equivalence and Morita duality which were given wide circulation in the 1960s by Hyman Bass in a series of lectures. The Morita conjectures on normal topological spaces are also named after him.

References

Arhangelskii, A.V.; Goodearl, K.R.; Huisgen-Zimmermann, B. (June–July 1997), "Kiiti Morita 1915-1995" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, 44 (6): 680–684

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 108496407 LCCN: n88269122 ISNI: 0000 0001 0931 4303 GND: 172264073 SUDOC: 072233680 BNF: cb12280785k (data) MGP: 30034 NDL: 00047509

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 2/22/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.