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unusual facts about Kiyoshi Oka


Oka's lemma

In mathematics, Oka's lemma, proved by Kiyoshi Oka, states that in a domain of holomorphy in Cn, the function –log d(z) is plurisubharmonic, where d is the distance to the boundary.


Several complex variables

With work of Friedrich Hartogs, and of Kiyoshi Oka in the 1930s, a general theory began to emerge; others working in the area at the time were Heinrich Behnke, Peter Thullen and Karl Stein.


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