# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/goro-shimura
# Generated: 2026-09-07T17:15:28.014Z

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name: "Gorō Shimura"
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description: "Gorō Shimura  was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multiplication of abelian varieties and Shimura varieties, as well as posing the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture which ultimately led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem."
tagline: "Japanese mathematician (1930-2019)"
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birthDate: "1930-02-23"
deathDate: "2019-05-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump