Sigekatu Kuroda


Sigekatu Kuroda was a Japanese mathematician who worked in number theory and mathematical logic.
In 1942 he became a professor at the newly founded Nagoya Imperial University, where he stayed for over twenty years. He is responsible for much of the effort in setting up its Department of Mathematics.
He was married to the renowned number theorist Teiji Takagi's daughter Yakeo. The couple had three sons, all of whom became mathematicians, including S.-Y. Kuroda, who was a professor of linguistics at University of California, San Diego.
He published a text on Foundations of Number Theory with Tomio Kubota in 1963.