Kentaro Yano

Kentaro Yano (1 March 1912 in Tokyo, Japan – 25 December 1993) was a mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Bochner–Yano theorem.

He also published a classical book about geometric objects (i.e., sections of natural fiber bundles) and Lie derivatives of these objects.

Publications Les espaces à connexion projective et la géométrie projective des paths, Iasi, 1938 Geometry of Structural Forms (Japanese), 1947 Groups of Transformations in Generalized Spaces, Tokyo, Akademeia Press, 1949 with Salomon Bochner: Curvature and Betti Numbers, Princeton University Press, Annals of Mathematics Studies, 1953 2020 reprint Differential geometry on complex and almost complex spaces, Macmillan, New York 1965 Integral formulas in Riemannian Geometry, Marcel Dekker, New York 1970 with Shigeru Ishihara: Tangent and cotangent bundles: differential geometry, New York, M. Dekker 1973 with Masahiro Kon: Anti-invariant submanifolds, Marcel Dekker, New York 1976 Morio Obata (ed.): Selected papers of Kentaro Yano, North Holland 1982 with Masahiro Kon: CR Submanifolds of Kählerian and Sasakian Manifolds, Birkhäuser 1983 2012 reprint with Masahiro Kon: Structures on Manifolds, World Scientific 1984