Kentaro Yano (mathematician)

Kentaro Yano
Kentaro Yano
	矢野健太郎
Born	March 1, 1912
Died	December 25, 1993 (aged 81); Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Citizenship	Japan
Alma mater	University of Tokyo, Japan
	Scientific career
Fields	Differential geometry, Riemannian Geometry
Institutions	University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Thesis	[Sur la théorie des espaces à connexion conforme Les espaces à connexion projective et la géométrie projective des "paths"[1]] (1938)
Doctoral advisor	Elie Cartan
Doctoral students	Tadashi Nagano
Influences	Gaston Darboux, Élie Cartan.

Kentaro Yano (1 March 1912 in Tokyo, Japan – 25 December 1993) was a mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Bochner–Yano theorem.

He also published a classical book about geometric objects (i.e., sections of natural fiber bundles) and Lie derivatives of these objects.

Publications

Les espaces à connexion projective et la géométrie projective des paths, Iasi, 1938
Geometry of Structural Forms (Japanese), 1947
Groups of Transformations in Generalized Spaces, Tokyo, Akademeia Press, 1949
with Salomon Bochner: Curvature and Betti Numbers, Princeton University Press, Annals of Mathematical Studies, 1953[2]
The Theory of Lie Derivatives and its Applications. North-Holland. 1957. ISBN 978-0-7204-2104-0.
Differential geometry on complex and almost complex spaces, Macmillan, New York 1965
Integral formulas in Riemannian Geometry, Marcel Dekker, New York 1970
with Shigeru Ishihara: Tangent and cotangent bundles: differential geometry, New York, M. Dekker 1973
with Masahiro Kon: Anti-invariant submanifolds, Marcel Dekker, New York 1976[3]
Morio Obata (ed.): Selected papers of Kentaro Yano, North Holland 1982
with Masahiro Kon: CR Submanifolds of Kählerian and Sasakian Manifolds, Birkhäuser 1983[4]
with Masahiro Kon: Structures on Manifolds, World Scientific 1984

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