"The subject that might be called “explicit class field theory” begins with Kronecker’s Theorem: every abelian extension of the field of rational numbers Q is a subfield of a cyclotomic field Q(ζn), where ζn is a primitive nth root of 1. In other words, we get all abelian extensions of Q by adjoining all “special values” of e(x) = exp(2πix), i.e., with x ∈ Q. Hilbert’s twelfth problem, also called Kronecker’s Jugendtraum, is to do something similar for any number field K, i.e., to generate all abelian extensions of K by adjoining special values of suitable special functions. ... Aside from some results of Hecke in 1912, the only progress on the twelfth problem was made by Shimura and Taniyama in the 1950s. They achieved complete results concerning the abelian extensions of number fields arising from abelian varieties, with complex multiplication, of arbitrary dimension n ..."
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Goro Shimura
Gorō Shimura, 志村 五郎, Shimura Gorō, 23 February 1930 – 3 May 2019, was a Japanese mathematician, famous for posing the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture.
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