Hidehiko Yamabe (山辺 英彦, Yamabe Hidehiko, August 22, 1923 in Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan – November 20, 1960 in Evanston, Illinois) was a Japanese mathematician. Above all, he is famous for discovering that every conformal class on a smooth compact manifold is represented by a Riemannian metric of constant scalar curvature. Other notable contributions include his definitive solution of Hilbert's fifth problem.
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22 August 1923 Ashiya, Hyōgo
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Died |
20 November 1960 (aged 37) Evanston, Illinois
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Zodiac | Leo |
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