Teiji Takagi
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Teiji Takagi (高木 貞治 Takagi Teiji, April 21, 1875 – February 28, 1960) was a Japanese mathematician, best known for proving the Takagi existence theorem in class field theory. The Blancmange curve, the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is also called the Takagi curve after his work on it.
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Teiji Takagi | |
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Born | (1875-04-21)April 21, 1875 Kazuya village near Gifu |
Died | February 28, 1960(1960-02-28) (aged 84) |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Tokyo Imperial University |
Known for | Takagi curve Takagi existence theorem Autonne–Takagi factorization |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Tokyo Imperial University |
Doctoral advisor | David Hilbert |
Doctoral students | Shokichi Iyanaga[1] Sigekatu Kuroda[1] Tadasi Nakayama[1] Kenjiro Shoda[1] |
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