Kiyoshi Oka

Kiyoshi Oka
岡 潔
Kyoshi Oka, Kyoto 1973
Born	(1901-04-19)April 19, 1901 Osaka, Japan
Died	March 1, 1978(1978-03-01) (aged 76) Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Kyoto Imperial University
Known for	Oka coherence theorem Oka's lemma
Awards	Asahi Prize (1953) Japan Academy Prize (1951) Order of Culture (1960)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Kyoto Imperial University Hiroshima University Hokkaido University Nara Women's University

Kiyoshi Oka (Japanese: 岡 潔, Oka Kiyoshi, April 19, 1901 – March 1, 1978) was a Japanese mathematician who made the theory of complex analysis with several variables. Therefore, there are some theorems named after him in this field.

Bibliography

• Oka, Kiyoshi (1961). Sur les fonctions analytiques de plusieurs variables (in French). Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami Shoten. p. 234. - Includes bibliographical references.
• Oka, Kiyoshi (1983). Sur les fonctions analytiques de plusieurs variables (in French) (Nouv. ed. augmentee. ed.). Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami. p. 246.
• Oka, Kiyoshi (1984). Reinhold Remmert (ed.). Kiyoshi Oka Collected Papers. Translated by Raghavan Narasimhan. Commentary: Henri Carta]. Springer-Verlag. p. 223. ISBN 0-387-13240-6.

Other websites

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Kiyoshi Oka", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
• Oka library at NWU Archived 2006-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
• Photos of Prof. Kiyoshi Oka