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for printing| Goro Shimura's father worked for a bank and moved
frequently from one branch of the bank to another. Even after
Goro's birth, the family moved from one house to another in
Hamamatsu, a city about 240 km west of Tokyo. He was the
youngest of his parents' five children, having three sisters and
a brother. In March 1933 the family moved to Tokyo and, three
years later, in April 1936, Goro began his schooling. In 1938
the family moved to a larger home in Tokyo but Goro continued to
attend the same elementary school until he had completed the
forth grade. After that he attended an elementary school near
his home in the Nishi-Ohkubu district, completing the fifth and
sixth grades. Shimura began his studies in the Fourth Tokyo
Prefectural Middle School in 1942 but there was little to excite
him in the mathematics teaching :- Classes in mathematics were
not very interesting. We again learne