Hidehiko Yamabe (山辺英彦, Yamabe Hidehiko^?, August 22, 1923 in Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan – November 20, 1960 in Evanston, Illinois) was a Japanese mathematician. His most notable work includes the final solution of Hilbert's fifth problem.

After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1947, Yamabe became an assistant at Osaka University. From 1952 until 1954 he was an assistant at Princeton University, receiving his Ph.D. from Osaka University while at Princeton. He left Princeton in 1954 to become assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Except for one year as a professor at Osaka University, he stayed in Minnesota until 1960. Yamabe died suddenly of a stroke in November 1960, just months after accepting a full professorship at Northwestern University.

[edit] See also

• Yamabe flow
• Yamabe invariant
• Yamabe problem

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Hidehiko Yamabe", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Yamabe.html .
• History of the Yamabe Memorial Symposium

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