Hiroshi Haruki

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Short description: Japanese mathematician

Hiroshi Haruki (春木 博, Haruki Hiroshi, died September 13, 1997) was a Japanese mathematician. A world-renowned expert in functional equations, he is best known for discovering Haruki's theorem and Haruki's lemma in plane geometry.

Some of his published work, such as: "On a Characteristic Property of Confocal Conic Sections" [1] is available (open source) on Project Euclid.

Haruki earned his MSc and PhD from Osaka University and taught there. He was a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 1966 till his retirement in 1986. He was a founding member of the university's computer science department (1967).

See also

  • List of University of Waterloo people

References

  • News release, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.

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