Editing Goro Shimura (section)

{{Short description|Japanese mathematician (1930–2019)}}
{{use dmy dates|date=May 2019}}
{{Family name hatnote|Shimura|lang=Japanese}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Gorō Shimura
| image             = Goro_Shimura_in_1964.jpg 
| image_size        = 256px
| caption           = Goro Shimura in 1964, taken by [[Princeton University]] while he was a professor there
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1930|02|23|df=y}}
| birth_place       = [[Hamamatsu, Japan]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2019|05|03|1930|02|23|df=yes}}
| death_place       = [[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]]
| nationality       = [[Japan]]ese
| fields            = [[Mathematics]]
| workplaces        = [[Princeton University]]
| alma_mater        = [[University of Tokyo]]
| doctoral_advisor  =
| doctoral_students = [[Don Blasius]]<br>[[Bill Casselman (mathematician)|Bill Casselman]]<br>[[Melvin Hochster]]<br>[[Robert Rumely]]<br>[[Alice Silverberg]]
| known_for         = [[abelian variety of CM-type|Complex multiplication of abelian varieties]]<br>[[Eichler-Shimura relation]]<br>[[Modularity theorem]]<br>[[Shimura correspondence]]<br>[[Shimura variety]]<br>[[Shimura subgroup]]<br>[[Shimura's reciprocity law]]
| awards            = [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] {{small|(1970)}}<br>[[Cole Prize]] {{small|(1977)}}<br>[[Asahi Prize]] {{small|(1991)}}<br>[[Steele Prize]] {{small|(1996)}}
}}
{{nihongo|'''Gorō Shimura'''|志村 五郎|Shimura Gorō|23 February 1930 – 3 May 2019}} was a Japanese [[mathematician]] and Michael Henry Strater [[Professor Emeritus]] of [[Mathematics]] at [[Princeton University]] who worked in [[number theory]], [[automorphic form]]s, and [[arithmetic geometry]].<ref name="death-announcement">{{cite web|url=https://www.math.princeton.edu/news/professor-emeritus-goro-shimura-1930-2019 |title=Professor Emeritus Goro Shimura 1930—2019 |publisher=Princeton University Department of Mathematics |date=3 May 2019 |access-date=3 May 2019}}</ref> He was known for developing the theory of [[abelian variety of CM-type|complex multiplication of abelian varieties]] and [[Shimura variety|Shimura varieties]], as well as posing the [[Taniyama–Shimura conjecture]] which ultimately led to the [[Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem|proof]] of [[Fermat's Last Theorem]].