| Shigeru Iitaka | |
| Birth Date: | 29 May 1942 |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Prizes: | Iyanaga Prize (1980) Japan Academy Prize (1990) |
Shigeru Iitaka (飯高 茂 Iitaka Shigeru, born May 29, 1942, Chiba) is a Japanese mathematician at Gakushuin University working in algebraic geometry who introduced the Kodaira dimension, and Iitaka dimension. He was a world leader in the field of Algebraic geometry.
He received his Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Tokyo under Kunihiko Kodaira with thesis「代数多様体のD-次元について」(On D-dimensions of algebraic varieties). He was awarded the Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan in 1980 and the Japan Academy Prize in 1990.