Akio Hattori

Akio Hattori
Born	1929 Tokyo
Died	August 25, 2013 (aged 84)
Fields	Mathematics

Akio Hattori (服部 晶夫 Hattori Akio, born in Tokyo in 1929,^[1] died on 25 August 2013^[2]) was a Japanese mathematician working in algebraic topology who proved the Hattori–Stong theorem. Hattori was the president of the Mathematical Society of Japan in 1989-1991.^[2][3]

Hattori received a Doctorate in Science from the University of Tokyo in 1959 with Shokichi Iyanaga as his advisor. He then joined the faculty of the University of Tokyo.^[4]

Footnotes

1. Birthdate from Worldcat author information, retrieved 2013-12-22.
2. "服部晶夫さん死去", Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese), 2013-08-30
3. 小松彦三郎, ICM-90 特集号 第21回国際数学者会議について [Feature:ICM-90; On the 21st ICM.] (pdf) (in Japanese), p. 7, retrieved 2013-09-01
4. Morita, S.; Matsumoto, S. (1990), "Mathematical contributions of Professor Akio Hattori" (PDF), Journal of the Faculty of Science. University of Tokyo. Section IA. Mathematics, 37 (3): i–iv, ISSN 0040-8980, MR 1080878, retrieved 2014-04-21

References

• Morita, S.; Matsumoto, S. (1990), "Mathematical contributions of Professor Akio Hattori" (PDF), Journal of the Faculty of Science. University of Tokyo. Section IA. Mathematics, 37 (3): i–iv, ISSN 0040-8980, MR 1080878, retrieved 2014-04-21 - Biography and publication list.
• Furuta, Mikio (2013-09-20), "服部晶夫先生のご逝去を悼む" [In remembrance of Akio Hattori] (PDF), 東京大学理学系研究科・理学部ニュース (in Japanese), Faculty of Science of University of Tokyo, p. 15, retrieved 2014-04-21
  • Its English version which appeared in ALGTOP-L, a mailing list concerning algebraic topology.