Kiyoshi Itô Memorialized

Last week, both the London Times and the New York Times published obituaries of Kiyoshi Itô, an eminent professor of mathematics at Kyoto University who was widely regarded as the greatest living expert on probability theory. Itô, who is the father of Junko Itô, sadly passed away on November 10, 2008, in Kyoto, Japan. He was the recipient of numerous prizes, awards, and honorary degrees, including the 2006 Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize and the 2008 Imperial Order of Culture of Japan.