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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Oldest living author of an OA article

I don't normally draw attention to OA articles that are not about OA. But let me make a rare exception for this article on Claude Chevalley's contributions to class field theory in mathematics. The author, Shokichi Iyanaga, was born in Tokyo on April 2, 1906. At 100, he must be the oldest living author of an OA article. (If not, I'll gladly post a correction.) He published his first research paper in 1928. So much for the theory that OA depends on the rising generation that grew up with the internet and web. When CERN and Tim Berners-Lee released the web standard into the public domain in 1991, Shokichi was 83 years old. Kudos for running strong.

Shokichi Iyanaga, Travaux de Claude Chevalley sur la théorie du corps de classes: Introduction, Japanese Journal of Mathematics, April 2006.