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Takeo Nakasawa

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Nationality
  
Japanese

Occupation
  
Mathematician


Name
  
Takeo Nakasawa

Role
  
Mathematician

Takeo Nakasawa A Lost Mathematician Takeo Nakasawa The Forgotten Father Of Matroid

Born
  
February 5, 1913 (
1913-02-05
)
Koichi prefecture, Japan

Known for
  
Inventor of the theory of matroids

Died
  
June 20, 1946, Khabarovsk, Russia

Takeo Nakasawa (February 5, 1913, Koichi prefecture, Japan – June 20, 1946, Khabarovsk, Soviet Union) was a Japanese mathematician who independently invented the theory of matroids, though his work was forgotten for many years.

References

Takeo Nakasawa Wikipedia