Shihoko Ishii
{{Short description|Japanese mathematician}}
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| birth_date = {{birth year|1950}}
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| nationality = {{flag|Japan}}
| fields = Mathematics
| workplaces = University of Tokyo
| alma_mater = Tokyo Metropolitan University
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| known_for = Singularity theory
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Shihoko Ishii ({{langx|ja|石井志保子}}, born 1950)Birth year from [http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000440063831 ISNI authority control file], retrieved 2018-11-28. is a Japanese mathematician and professor at the University of Tokyo. Her research area is algebraic geometry.{{cite web|title=Ishii, Shihoko|url=http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search/author.html?mrauthid=198021|website=MathSciNet|publisher=Mathematical Reviews|accessdate=8 April 2017}}
Education
Ishii received her bachelor's degree from Tokyo Women's Christian University in 1973 and her master's degree from Waseda University in 1975. She later earned her PhD from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1983.{{cite web|title=Shihoko Ishii|url=http://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/women-in-math/portrait/shihoko-ishii|website=European Women in Mathematics|accessdate=8 April 2017}}
Research
Ishii's research focuses on singularity theory. She studies arc spaces, a mathematical concept related to jets: arc spaces are varieties encapsulating information about curves on another variety.
Awards and honours
Ishii received the Saruhashi Prize for accomplishments by a Japanese woman researcher in the natural sciences in 1995.{{cite book|author1=Sumiko Otsubo|chapter=Women Scientists and Gender Ideology|editor1-last=Robertson|editor1-first=Jennifer|title=A Companion to the Anthropology of Japan|date=2008|page=474}} As a postdoc, Ishii was inspired by reading a profile of Fumiko Yonezawa, a physicist and former winner of the Saruhashi prize.
Ishii received the Algebra Prize from the Mathematical Society of Japan in 2011.{{cite web|title=Prizes by Research Sections|url=http://mathsoc.jp/en/pamph/current/section_pr.html|website=Mathematical Society of Japan|accessdate=8 April 2017}}
In 2022, she became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.{{cite web |url=https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/ |title=The Asian Scientist 100 |author= |date= |website= |publisher= Asian Scientist |access-date= 13 March 2025 |quote= |language= }}
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