Though he was by no means a sloppy type was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him f… - Gorō Shimura

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Though he was by no means a sloppy type was gifted with the special capability of making many mistakes, mostly in the right direction. I envied him for this, and tried in vain to imitate him, but found it quite difficult to make good mistakes.

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About Gorō Shimura

Gorō Shimura, 志村 五郎, Shimura Gorō, 23 February 1930 – 3 May 2019, was a Japanese mathematician, famous for posing the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.

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Alternative Names: Shimura Gorō • Goro Shimura • Shimura Goro • Gorou Shimura
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The Fourier expansion of an elliptic modular form has been fruitfully utilized in various arithmetical problems as well as in the study of the analytic properties of the form itself. The same can be said also for the Hilbert and Siegel modular forms.
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