Kobayashi, Shoshichi

<P><STRONG>Biography of Shoshichi Kobayashi</STRONG></P> <P>Shoshichi Kobayashi was born January 4, 1932 in Kofu, Japan. After obtaining his mathematics degree from the University of Tokyo and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, he held positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, at MIT and at the University of British Columbia between 1956 and 1962, and then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Professor in the Graduate School.</P> <P>Kobayashi's research spans the areas of differential geome...