Goro Shimura

Gorō Shimura was a Japanese mathematician, born in Hamamatsu on 23 February 1930 and died in Princeton on 3 May 2019, and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University, who worked in number theory, automorphic forms and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties and for posing the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. He graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in 1952 and a D.Sc. in 1958, and through André Weil obtained a position at Princeton, where he served from 1964 until 1999 and advised over 28 doctoral students. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1970, the Cole Prize in 1977, the Asahi Prize in 1991 and the Steele Prize for lifetime achievement in 1996.