was a Japanese mathematician who worked in number theory and mathematical logic.
| Sigekatu Kuroda | |
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1905 |
| Birth Place: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Death Date: | 3 November 1972 |
| Death Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Tokyo Women's Normal School Nagoya University (1942–1963) University of Maryland (1962–1972) |
| Alma Mater: | Tokyo Imperial University (Ph.D., 1945) |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Teiji Takagi |
In 1942 he became a professor at the newly founded Nagoya Imperial University, where he stayed for over twenty years. He was responsible for much of the effort in setting up its Department of Mathematics.[1]
He was married to the renowned number theorist Teiji Takagi's daughter Yakeo. The couple had three sons, all of whom became mathematicians, including S.-Y. Kuroda, who was a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.[2]
He published a text on the foundations of algebraic number theory with Tomio Kubota in 1963.