Ichirō Satake

Ichiro Satake
Ichirō Satake in Berkeley, California
Born	(1927-12-25)December 25, 1927 Tokyo, Japan
Died	October 10, 2014(2014-10-10) (aged 86)
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	University of Tokyo
Known for	Satake isomorphism Satake diagrams
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Tokyo (1952-1963) University of Chicago (1963-1968) UC Berkeley (1968-1983) Tohoku University (1980-1991) Chuo University (1991-1998)
Doctoral advisor	Shokichi Iyanaga

Ichirō Satake (佐武 一郎, Satake Ichirō) (25 December 1927 – 10 October 2014) was a Japanese mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. He was considered an iconic figure in the theory of linear algebraic groups and symmetric spaces.^[1]

Satake was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1927, and received his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Shokichi Iyanaga. He was a professor at UC Berkeley from 1968 to 1983. After retirement he returned to Japan, where he spent time at Tohoku University and Chuo University. He died of respiratory failure on 10 October 2014.^[2]

Publications

• Satake, Ichirô (1963), "Theory of spherical functions on reductive algebraic groups over p-adic fields", Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS (18): 5–69, ISSN 1618-1913, MR 0195863
• Satake, Ichirô (1980), Algebraic structures of symmetric domains, Kanô Memorial Lectures, 4, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 978-0-691-08271-4, MR 0591460

References

• Ichirō Satake at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

External links

• Photographs of Ichiro Satake from Oberwolfach