Shigeo Sasaki () (18 November 1912 Yamagata Prefecture, Japan – 14 August 1987 Tokyo) was a Japanese mathematician working on

differential geometry Differential geometry is a mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of differential calculus, integral calculus, linear algebra and multili ...

who introduced

Sasaki manifold In differential geometry, a Sasakian manifold (named after Shigeo Sasaki) is a contact manifold (M,\theta) equipped with a special kind of Riemannian metric g, called a ''Sasakian'' metric. Definition A Sasakian metric is defined using the construc ...

s. He retired from

Tohoku University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated National ...

's Mathematical Institute in April 1976.

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* * 20th-century Japanese mathematicians 1912 births 1987 deaths {{Japan-mathematician-stub