Shigeru Nakayama (中山茂) (1928–2014) was a Japanese historian of science.
[2] He left Hiroshima Higher School in 1948, and graduated from Tokyo University with a degree in mathematical astronomy in 1951.
[3][4] As a graduate student, Nakayama was a Fulbright scholar.
[3] Besides those two scholars, he regarded Kiyosi Yabuuti (1906–2000) as one of his teachers.
[1] At Harvard in the late 1950s, he met fellow graduate student Nathan Sivin, with whom he worked for many decades.