Akio Hattori (服部 晶夫, Hattori Akio, born in Tokyo in 1929,[1] died on 25 August 2013 due to submandibular gland cancer.
[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[4] with Shokichi Iyanaga as his advisor.
Akio Hattori and Hiroshi Fujita from the University of Tokyo, and Dr. Shiro Goto from Nihon University joined to launch a research and educational system for algebra, geometry and analytics.