Taira Honda

Taira Honda (本田 平, Honda Taira, 2 June 1932 Fukui, Japan – 15 May 1975 Osaka, Japan) was a Japanese mathematician working on number theory who proved the Honda–Tate theorem classifying abelian varieties over finite fields.

References

• Iyanaga, Shôkichi (1975). "Taira Honda (1932–1975)". Osaka Journal of Mathematics. 12 (2): i–iv. ISSN 0030-6126. MR 0379116.
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Taira Honda", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews