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Goro Shimura

Goro Shimura (1930 -), Japanese-American mathematician.

Shimura was a colleague and a friend of Yutaka Taniyama. He is mostly known through the important Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, which implied the famous Fermat's last theorem as a special case.



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