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1. Kakutani Shizuo (1911.8.28-2004.8.17)
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2. Shizuo KakutaniShizuo Kakutani was a Japanese-born American mathematician, best known for his eponymous fixed-point theorem. Kakutani attended Tohoku University in Sendai, where his advisor was Tatsujirō Shimizu. Early in his career he spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton at the invitation of the German mathematician Hermann Weyl. While there, he also met John von Neumann. Kakutani received his Ph.D. in 1941 from Osaka University and taught there through World War II.
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