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Takeshi Umehara

Takeshi Umehara is a person - just like you and me! He is from Japan and he is really good at solving math problems.

When we do math problems, we use numbers and symbols like +, -, and =. Takeshi Umehara is really good at figuring out what numbers and symbols to use to solve even really hard problems.

Some of the problems that Takeshi Umehara has solved are called "open problems," which means that no one knows how to solve them yet. Takeshi Umehara is so smart that he was able to solve some of these really difficult problems and help math experts understand more about how numbers work.

So, in summary, Takeshi Umehara is a really smart person from Japan who is really good at solving math problems that other people find really difficult.