Girl in a Box

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"It's taken me almost a whole lifetime to become a decent liar."

Award-winning author Sujata Massey is back with a delicious blend of mystery and contemporary women's fiction, and in Girl in a Box, Japanese-American sleuth Rei Shimura is on her most dangerous outing yet.

Chronically underemployed Rei takes a freelance gig with a Washington, D.C., alphabet agency that just might have ties to the CIA. Her mission, should she choose to accept it, is to go undercover as a clerk in a big Tokyo department store. It's a tricky and risky assignment, but it also gives Rei the opportunity to check out all the latest fashions and use her store discount to indulge her shopping impulses.

Meanwhile, she's listening in on conversations not meant for her and crashing a conference she's not invited to. She winds up fending off the advances of a couple of the store's executives who seem to be fascinated by her navel ring. When her cover is blown, Rei is in big trouble, and it will take all her resourcefulness and unorthodox methods to unmask a killer.

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Faux Rei.......2007-05-31

It's been seven-and-a-half years since we were first introduced to intrepid girl sleuth with an international flair, Rei Shimura, in "The Salaryman's Wife". So much has happened to Rei since then: she started her own successful antiques business; deeply loved and lost two men; been kidnapped, nearly stabbed; poisoned; nearly burnt to death in an arson fire; pushed down a flight of subway stairs, thrown out of a speeding car, & nearly drowned in a typhoon-swollen river. She has had her picture in the tabloid press, been deported for breaking into a hotel room; broken an engagement (twice) and lost her lover's baby.

Rei has only aged a year to every two of ours out in reader land, taking her from 27 to 30 years old. Still, with all that, and her twenties now behind her, one would expect this slightly older Rei to be slightly wiser, too, and have an adventure worthy of all her growing life experience. I found "Girl in a Box" disappointing on that score. This installment finds Rei back in Tokyo, posing as the 'perfect' department store employee: a 23-year-old well-bred and immaculately-groomed girl still living at home with her parents. Her mission: to gather intelligence about potential organized crime activity on behalf of the American government. Since it comes as a surprise to no one that the Japanese mafia ('yakuza') has its fingers in every major profit-making concern in Japanese interests both domestic and abroad, the conceit that it's so shocking to the fictitious government agency that employs Rei that they'd go to ridiculous lengths to imperil her life by sending her in to gather intel is the only real mystery here. Rei as a covert ops agent alone strains credulity; allegedly she has been spending 6 months in spy school, but she's not very good at it, as she manages to make frequent blunders as called for by the plot in order to maximize her peril. For all her blundering about on the job, evidently she slips so effortlessly into her cover, aided by a super-glam makeup job and new haircut, that no one ever questions her identity. Rather odd, since her quaint non-native pronunciation & her functional illiteracy in reading written Japanese have always made her stand out and struggle in the past. Rei is just not convincing as either a department store doll or a spy. A large part of Rei's prickly charm is missing in this installment; her complete lack of introspection becomes grating--it was only two books ago that Rei had a miscarriage & ended her relationship with Hugh for good(again), but there's no hint of that water under the bridge. Indeed, there is no connection to any of Rei's past life at all, save one brief appearance each of Aunt Norie and BFF Richard Randall. It's rather instructive that Rei is posing as a 23-year-old here, because Massey has essentially erased most of the last 7 years like they never happened.

The best part of any Rei adventure for me is always the Japanese cultural tidbits. Through Rei's exploits I have learned a great deal about antique Japanese woodwork; kimono, ikebana; comic book culture & the battles 'half-blooded' people fight daily in that society. This book focuses on the modern Japanese obsession with mass consumerism, a facet that is neither flattering to the Japanese people nor particularly interesting. Having spent 6 years in Japan, I can say that Ms. Massey's cultural details and the physical aspects of her locations have been spot-on so far. I never had the funds to shop in the upscale department stores such as the one Rei works in here, but it still fails to engage me on a level of her other books. I do wonder whether the real Mitsutan Department store, an actual company, and the Japanese equivilent of Macy's, has any issues with being raked over the coals as a hotbed of underworld criminal activity? That would be a severe loss of face for them, even if the work is entirely fictional.

As a stand-alone work, "Girl in a Box" is a pleasant-enough outing. But for those of us familiar with Rei's milieu, this effort falls far short of what we are accustomed to seeing. I don't think any of us are ready, either, to see Rei replace Hugh so quickly with her older boss, no matter how attractive he might be. Let's hope that Rei makes good on her plan to quit the spy agency and return to her first love of antiques. The antiques world desperately needs her, but the espionage world is better off if she stays as far away as possible. I'm also gunning for a return to the picture of Rei's estranged lover, Hugh Glendinning. Rei might not want to admit it, but even if those two are often like sushi & Guinness, they belong together.

Yet Another Great Rei Book.......2007-04-05

In this new adventure, the reader has the opportunity to read on the makings of a new spy. How carefully the cover story and the training have to be develop a "personality profile". Then, the reader is allowed to stoll in the poshiest department store in Japan, thru the cover of Rei as an employee. Its a delightful book that grabs your attention since the first page. Rei's character is growing older and more complex. Yes she has made a lot of mistakes, but to me that is what makes her more interesting and fresh...i never know how she is going to react! That is what keeps me reading.
There is something to be said about the careful description of garment labels. It is a very Japanese thing to do; it seems many Japanese are enamored about couture names. It is only normal that our Rei Shimura is also very interested in them too!
I am eagerly awaiting for the next book!

Rei is getting off the mark.......2007-03-16

I have read all of the Rei Shimura books and have enjoyed all but the last two tremendously. Rei is an engaging and surprising character--completely unstereotypical, as are her interesting parents and family. But, it was extremely disappointing that the relationship with Hugh ended, and Rei's character and the plotlines are increasingly problematical. I do not believe Rei as an undercover operative and Michael is too boring a character for words. There are so many interesting adventures Rei could have. Why not make her a reporter for a bilingual US/Japan magazine? She could develop into an art consultant and extend the series in that direction. How about a brief (tragic?) marriage to a Japanese man? Rei's self-absorption and character flaws grow increasingly irksome as she enters her 30's. Time to grow up. Hugh was the perfect foil for Rei--bring him back, please!

Rei is a delightful character.......2007-03-16

Rei is a delightful character, youthful and mature at the same time, and she is why I enjoyed this novel quite a bit. While I have little interest in fashion myself, I got caught up in Rei's interest. The importance of Japanese culture to the story is a definite plus, and the writing is very competent, competent enough to make Rei a credible character. The plot makes sense once you are willing to accept the secret organization which is Rei's employer, and why this organization would take on the mission it did. The novel has a very mediocre beginning, but gets much better once Rei makes it to Japan and begins her employment in the department store; the mystery aspect becomes important, and even suspenseful, at about the time Rei meets the Indian MBA, which is well along in the book.

an entertaining read.......2007-03-09

I look forward to each of Rei's new adventures. This latest one did not disappoint me.

Abelian Varieties with Complex Multiplication and Modular Functions

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An example of masterity from the master of modular forms

Abelian Varieties with Complex Multiplication and Modular Functions
Goro Shimura
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ASIN: 0691016569

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Reciprocity laws of various kinds play a central role in number theory. In the easiest case, one obtains a transparent formulation by means of roots of unity, which are special values of exponential functions. A similar theory can be developed for special values of elliptic or elliptic modular functions, and is called complex multiplication of such functions. In 1900 Hilbert proposed the generalization of these as the twelfth of his famous problems. In this book, Goro Shimura provides the most comprehensive generalizations of this type by stating several reciprocity laws in terms of abelian varieties, theta functions, and modular functions of several variables, including Siegel modular functions.

This subject is closely connected with the zeta function of an abelian variety, which is also covered as a main theme in the book. The third topic explored by Shimura is the various algebraic relations among the periods of abelian integrals. The investigation of such algebraicity is relatively new, but has attracted the interest of increasingly many researchers. Many of the topics discussed in this book have not been covered before. In particular, this is the first book in which the topics of various algebraic relations among the periods of abelian integrals, as well as the special values of theta and Siegel modular functions, are treated extensively.

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An example of masterity from the master of modular forms.......1999-07-03

I regard the book as a priceless gate to the ideas by which "Fermat's last theorem" has been concluded. Hence for any mathematician who would like to master in algebraic geometry, number theory or any alike subject it is an indispensable resource of first glance.

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Zen Attitude
Sujata Massey
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ASIN: 0060899212
Release Date: 2005-11-29

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Life in modern Tokyo is a blast for Rei Shimura, a young Japanese-American woman who enjoys busy days as an antiques dealer and steamy nights with a devoted new boyfriend. But things come to a standstill when Rei overpays for a rare old chest of drawers for a wealthy client, the owner of a famous Zen temple in Kamakura. The exquisite tansu turns out to be a fake: the worst deal Rei has ever made. When the temple family turns on Rei -- and the con man who sold the tansu is murdered -- she realizes she's opened a Pandora's box of deception and murder. A young martial artist, an aspiring rock singer, and an elderly antiques mentor all become part of Rei's search for the killer through the shadows of an ancient culture. As her world begins to rapidly and inexplicably unravel, Rei realizes that it will take strength, wit, and a Zen attitude to survive.

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Horrible Is Excellent
The Typhoon Lover
Novel filled with all the right elements
Not as good as the others
Liked but didn't love this latest in the Rei Shimura series...

The Typhoon Lover
Sujata Massey
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Release Date: 2005-10-04

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Horrible Is Excellent.......2007-07-04

Typhoon Lover did exactly what I was hoping it wouldn't do and that made it a wonderful read, even if I felt anxious the whole time for the heroine. Her own sorry actions plus the problems thrown her way made it one of the best in the series. The future is uncertain, but interesting for Rei and I'm looking forward to reading Girl in a Box. Rei is one of the best characters I've come across in reading. She's so real. She makes mistakes, she has bad judgment, brilliant insights and a propensity to get in deeper than perhaps she should, but always landing on her feet...sort of.

The Typhoon Lover.......2007-01-05

While not the best of the best, this mystery is well written, and as usual, filled with wonderful details about Japanese life. I would recommend it, with the caution that reading the previous books in the series makes it more interesting as Rei's relationships move forward in this book.

Novel filled with all the right elements.......2006-08-07

I loved it! Sujata Massey is my new favorite author! I read this book from cover to cover in one afternoon. There is a possible murder-suicide, a love story, scandals, and intrigue. It reads like a spy story.

I skipped over the sex scenes; they were really unnecessary and didn't add to the story. My dad read this book, and decided that it is written for the younger generation. I think that explains the one and only rotten review for this book.

Not as good as the others.......2006-07-28

I really enjoy reading Sujata Massey's books. I think Rei Shimura's adventures are a thrill and I usually can't put the book down untill I'm finished with it. But this time has been diferent, I don't know why but it's been a little boring and maybe too short, I have the feeling that nothing happened and at the end Rei ends up alone for no reason.
I hope the next one is better, although I know that having the pressure of writing so many books and wanting them to be as good as the others has to be difficult to bear with, so I just want to encourage Sujata to keep writing Rei's adventures.

Liked but didn't love this latest in the Rei Shimura series..........2006-05-15

As always, Massey does a wonderful job of weaving in cultural details to her mystery story and when I finished Typhoon Lover I found myself eager to read the next book in the series because I love Massey's writing style and the world she shares through this series and didn't want my time in Rei's world to be over. That said, I didn't like the development of Rei and Hugh in this book--among other things, Rei is supposed to be 30 years old and her interpersonal instincts with Hugh can be so incredibly lacking, especially for a woman astute enough to navigate international sleuthing and the nuances of a second culture; moreover, she is often so insightful and astute in reading people. But so it goes. Still, Massey's novels are rich reads and this book had me riveted, albeit frustrated at times.

Introduction to Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions

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modular forms classics

Introduction to Arithmetic Theory of Automorphic Functions
Goro Shimura
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ASIN: 0691080925

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The theory of automorphic forms is playing increasingly important roles in several branches of mathematics, even in physics, and is almost ubiquitous in number theory. This book introduces the reader to the subject and in particular to elliptic modular forms with emphasis on their number-theoretical aspects. After two chapters geared toward elementary levels, there follows a detailed treatment of the theory of Hecke operators, which associate zeta functions to modular forms. At a more advanced level, complex multiplication of elliptic curves and abelian varieties is discussed. The main question is the construction of abelian extensions of certain algebraic number fields, which is traditionally called "Hilbert's twelfth problem". Another advanced topic is the determination of the zeta function of an algebraic curve uniformized by modular functions, which supplies an indispensable background for the recent proof of Fermat's last theorem by Wiles.

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modular forms classics.......2007-01-05

This is a classical masterpiece in the area. Although much of the matherial is now available in other books, I am sure that this book must be on the bookshelf of anyone whose research is seriously connected with modular forms. As a warning, the book is no easy reading, and despite its title, should not be considered as an introductory text.

The Geometry and Cohomology of Some Simple Shimura Varieties.

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The Geometry and Cohomology of Some Simple Shimura Varieties.
Michael Harris , and Richard Taylor
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Automorphic Forms and Representations

ASIN: 0691090920

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This book aims first to prove the local Langlands conjecture for GL _n over a p-adic field and, second, to identify the action of the decomposition group at a prime of bad reduction on the l-adic cohomology of the "simple" Shimura varieties. These two problems go hand in hand. The results represent a major advance in algebraic number theory, finally proving the conjecture first proposed in Langlands's 1969 Washington lecture as a non-abelian generalization of local class field theory.

The local Langlands conjecture for GL _n(K), where K is a p-adic field, asserts the existence of a correspondence, with certain formal properties, relating n-dimensional representations of the Galois group of K with the representation theory of the locally compact group GL _n(K). This book constructs a candidate for such a local Langlands correspondence on the vanishing cycles attached to the bad reduction over the integer ring of K of a certain family of Shimura varieties. And it proves that this is roughly compatible with the global Galois correspondence realized on the cohomology of the same Shimura varieties. The local Langlands conjecture is obtained as a corollary.

Certain techniques developed in this book should extend to more general Shimura varieties, providing new instances of the local Langlands conjecture. Moreover, the geometry of the special fibers is strictly analogous to that of Shimura curves and can be expected to have applications to a variety of questions in number theory.

Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves (Annals of Mathematics Studies)

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Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves (Annals of Mathematics Studies)
Stephen S. Kudla , Michael Rapoport , and Tonghai Yang
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Modular Forms and Special Cycles on Shimura Curves is a thorough study of the generating functions constructed from special cycles, both divisors and zero-cycles, on the arithmetic surface "M" attached to a Shimura curve "M" over the field of rational numbers. These generating functions are shown to be the q-expansions of modular forms and Siegel modular forms of genus two respectively, valued in the Gillet-Soulé arithmetic Chow groups of "M". The two types of generating functions are related via an arithmetic inner product formula. In addition, an analogue of the classical Siegel-Weil formula identifies the generating function for zero-cycles as the central derivative of a Siegel Eisenstein series. As an application, an arithmetic analogue of the Shimura-Waldspurger correspondence is constructed, carrying holomorphic cusp forms of weight 3/2 to classes in the Mordell-Weil group of "M". In certain cases, the nonvanishing of this correspondence is related to the central derivative of the standard L-function for a modular form of weight 2. These results depend on a novel mixture of modular forms and arithmetic geometry and should provide a paradigm for further investigations. The proofs involve a wide range of techniques, including arithmetic intersection theory, the arithmetic adjunction formula, representation densities of quadratic forms, deformation theory of p-divisible groups, p-adic uniformization, the Weil representation, the local and global theta correspondence, and the doubling integral representation of L-functions.

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Shimura
Robbie Morrison
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Very good light reading.
I'm not going to summarize!
Read the first in the series--skip this one
Buddhist young soul coming of age
Thoroughly loved this!

The Pearl Diver (Massey, Sujata)
Sujata Massey
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ASIN: 0066212960
Release Date: 2004-08-03

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A dazzling engagement ring and the promise of a fresh start in a new country bring antiques dealer and sometime-sleuth Rei Shimura to Washington, D.C. But while she tries to play catch-up with her beautiful, politically connected cousin, Kendall, and is commissioned to furnish a chic Japanese-fusion restaurant, things start to go haywire. First, Kendall vanishes from the restaurant's opening-night party, and then Rei is drafted to help Andrea, the restaurant's elegant, cagey hostess, investigate the disappearance of her own Japanese mother thirty years earlier.

As the strands of these puzzles begin to come together, Rei finds that her relationship with her fianc#233;, Hugh, has changed from sizzle to burn. At the same time, she faces troubling questions about what it means to be a loving mother -- and whether her own independent streak will endanger the women to whom she has grown close.

Rei must research the scary old days of the Vietnam War and delve into the secret history of an ambitious presidential candidate to piece together the mystery of the vanished women -- and also understand truths about herself, which may change her destiny.

In The Pearl Diver, Sujata Massey delivers a multilayered, suspenseful story complete with the intrigue, romance, and rich Asian cultural background that her fans have come to relish.

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Very good light reading........2007-03-27

Rei is such a delightful character that this is a joyful book. Of course, it does not hurt that her Aunt is a delightful character also, and that it has a happy ending. Rei has her career and relationship problems, but she is positive, enterprising, brave, and loyal to her friends. Some aspects of the plot are not entirely plausible, but it is suspenseful. "Pearl Diver" is very good light reading, and I would recommend it over the other Massey I book I read, "Girl in the Box", which is also good. As examples of plot details which bother me: Akiko's step mother apparently does not mind being blackmailed by her own brother; and would her father really be threatened by an admitted perjurer changing his story after so many years?

I'm not going to summarize!.......2006-12-30

I can't stand when reviewers summarize the plot. Anyway, I am fairly new to the series and unfortunately have read most of them out of order. I enjoy them but there are some things I can't stand and they really came out in this book. Rei is supposed to be American raised with a stint in Japan. She is in her late 20's, early 30's throughout the series. Massey really needs to do her research. At times she has her acting like an old lady and then she has her acting like a 15 year old. Navel piercings are so 10 years ago, yet Rei was shocked about it (by the way it's not done with a gun like at the mall). She has crazy bondage sex but freaks about telling her aunt Norie about living with Hugh. How does this make sense? And does Massey just do a search on Amazon for indie bands to throw in that Rei listens too? Does she even know who these bands are (Rilo Kiley, Death Cab)? And what cool girl would wear vintage Talbots? Why would Rei own a Walkman (hello iPOD)! I can't stand that someone raised in the age of technology would be so computer illiterate and not even now about Ebay. I know, I'm talking about all the books now but Rei's character is so disjointed. I can't relate (and she's my age). Overall though I like the series. I find them hard to put down even with all the annoyances about Rei. Maybe Massey just needs to hang out with people that are actually Rei's age.

Read the first in the series--skip this one.......2006-12-18

I'm not moved often to write reviews pro or con but this book was so terrible I had to act. I gave it one star because the writing is literate.

I will only say that I have read all the other books in this series except the one immediately before this one. I missed it and was excited to see a new one! Alas, moving to the U.S. seems to have completely changed her personality. She has become tedious, whiny, and tentative. The plot of this novel is uninvolving and very slow to get started. The other characters, except Aunt Norie, are pedestrian.

If you want exciting books about Japan, read the Isaac Adamson series with Billy Chaka or, for a slower pace and intriguing characters, the early Banana Yoshimoto. Check out Haruki Murakami. There's good stuff out there. This isn't it.

Lose Hugh and send Rei back to Tokyo. Let's have some fun.

Buddhist young soul coming of age.......2006-05-18

Rei Shimura's introduction to readers at age 25 in The Salaryman's Wife is now entering her adolescence at age 29 in the Pearl Diver 7th book in the series.

Rei's loving parentage is half American interior decorator wearer of designer clothes handed down to her daughter, and half Japanese psychiatrist whose own ancestor deeds drive his work helping others. Rei's loving fiance Hugh Glendinning is certain of his love for Rei, but Rei is uncertain of herself. Auntie Norie just arrived from Japan to prepare and plan for their wedding.

Living in America but yearning for Japan, Rei perceives rebuff from both sides of her family but the origin of all her distanced relationships is Rei herself. Being unsure of herself makes it difficult to commit to anything or anyone (movie Family Stone). Like all tragic heroes, Rei insecurity drives her toward independence which does not permit close attachment (NBC Monday Night movie Jill Eikenberry, Judith Light, Sandy Duncan My Boyfriend's Back) instead grants constant excuses for distraction, withdrawal (murder, abduction, abortion).

Rei meets a half black half Japanese girl Akiko who pleads for Rei's help finding her Japanese mother, her father having rejected her for 30 years (movie Made in America with Whoopie Goldberg, daughter in movie "I wanted a dad, I needed a dad, he was my dad").

Rei's cousin Kendall Howard Norton a society political fundraiser for the movers and shakers in Washington DC is kidnapped and Rei tries to help her cousin and Akiko out of their dilemmas.

Some you meet project the feeling of very old souls, having successfully traversed a few Buddhist lives and been reborn slightly awakened to themselves. With Rei one has the feeling she is yet a young soul undergoing transition.

One can experience the arc of more than one lifetime in a single existence by choice, through unsought epiphany (Buddha), religious spiritual rebirth (born again fundamentalists Islamic, Christian, Hindu), meditative insight, therapy or a life so traumatic that one undergoes complete transformation as Akiko's father and mother do in Pearl Diver.

We cannot know what we are capable of until we act and war sometimes brings out our best and worst actions. There are some things which we do not really want to know we could do, but having done them, bear the memory forever (movie Capote) sometimes as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.

This series repeatedly exposes PTSD in Rei, those she encounters, and in "Pearl Diver" combatants of the Viet Nam War. PTSD overwhelms some, scars others whose antisocial tendencies are fanned into xenophobic loathing (self hatred); for the fortunate, denial works well (movie Match Point) and they negotiate with their conscience in whatever way seems palatable.

Throughout the book series Rei interacts with mixed races: Puerto Rican, Muslim, Scot, a multicultural blend. Most do not know who they are, all are seeking; the use of alcohol and recreational drugs for self medication may have it's own sequelae in future installments (cognitive impairment,pancreatitis, broken relationships, fatty liver, addictive lifestyle) we will see.

All these twenty and thirty somethings are undergoing transition, and Rei's adventures are food for thought and delicious reading.

Would recommend starting at the beginning and reading in sequence: Salaryman's Wife, Zen Attitude, Flower Master, Floating Girl, Bride's Kimono, Pearl Diver, Typhoon Lover.

Thoroughly loved this!.......2006-05-15

I continue to be a fan of this series and this may be one of my favorites. The combination of history, cultural details, mystery and the DC restaurant scene all make for engrossing reading. Massey creates some very compelling characters and develops some nice, nuanced relationships (with the exception of Rei and Hugh being clunky at times--hard to believe that they are so inept in communicating with each other when they are so otherwise insightful, etc). I loved the storyline--great for new readers and fans of the series alike!

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one of famous japanese mathmaticians

Collected Papers
Goro Shimura
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ASIN: 0387954163

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In 1996 the AMS awarded Goro Shimura the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement for his "important and extensive work on arithmetical geometry and automorphic forms." His seminal work has resulted in the "many notations in number theory that carry his name and that have long been familiar to workers in the field." These 5 volumes contain 103 of his most important papers, beginning in 1954 and continuing up through the present.

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one of famous japanese mathmaticians.......2006-03-01

Goro Shimura is one of the most famous japanese mathematicians. Yutaka Taniyama and Ichiro Satake was his colleagues.

But in Japan, Ken Shimura is more famous than Goro Shimura. I don't know whether Ken Shimura is a relative of Goro Shimura or not, but Ken Shimura and Goro Shimura are the most famous Shimuras in Japan.

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