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    Biography

    Kosaku Yosida was born in okänt, a large industrial city on Honshu Island around km south east of Tokyo. He was brought up in Tokyo where he attended school, then entered the Faculty of Science of Tokyo Imperial University. This university, established in , had been devastated by the Great Kanto earthquake which struck on Saturday, 1 September Yosida graduated with his first degree in , having taken mathematics as his main subject. He had been taught by Takuji Yosie () and was friendly with fellow student Hidegoro Nakano who also studied at Tokyo Imperial University and obtained the degree of bachelor of science in March

    Yosida continued to study at Tokyo Imperial University beginning research and publishing papers on meromorphic functions and ordinary differential equations such as: On the asymptotic property of the differential equationy"+H(x)y=f(x,y,y′)(); On the distribution of a-points of solutions for linear differential equation of the second order

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    I saw Peter Diamond’s comments about Shizuo Kakutani (“The Class I’ll Never Forget,” July/August) and was struck by the similarity of our experiences. Peter Diamond’s first exam grade was in the 40s. Mine was 31, though my friends tried to console me by pointing out that their grades were even worse! There was one occasion when we as a class finally protested Professor Kakutani’s habit of describing theorems as obvious. These are hard theorems, we said; they are not obvious! His response was, “All math is obvious once you think about it the right way.” It took me a few years to realize that this was the key lesson of his class.

    Harold Prince ’73, ’78MS
    Palo Alto, CA

     

    I concur with Harold Bloom in his hopes that others remember Frederick Pottle. My strongest memory of Professor Pottle is his opening lecture to the undergraduates on Wordsworth. He held his lapel and, with

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    Michiko Kakutani

    American critic, writer (b. )

    Michiko Kakutani (ミチコ・カクタニ, 角谷美智子, born January 9, ) is an American writer and retired literary critic, best known for reviewing books for The New York Times from to In that role, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in

    Early life and family

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    Kakutani, a Japanese American, was born on January 9, , in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the only child of Yale mathematicianShizuo Kakutani and Keiko "Kay" Uchida. Her father was born in Japan, and her mother was a second-generation Japanese-American who was raised in Berkeley, California.[1][2] Kakutani's aunt, Yoshiko Uchida, was an author of children's books.[1] Kakutani received her bachelor's degree in English literature from Yale University in , where she studied under author and Yale writing professor John Hersey, among others.[3]

    Career

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    Kakutani initially worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, and then from t