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Shizuo Kakutani

was born 113 years ago

28 August 1911

Shizuo Kakutani was a Japanese-born American mathematician who worked in probability theory, ergodic theory and complex analysis, and is best known for his fixed-point theorem.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kakutani/