Yasuo Akizuki

{{short description|Japanese mathematician}}

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| name = Yasuo Akizuki

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1902|08|23}}

| birth_place = Wakayama, Japan

| death_date = {{death date and age|1984|07|11|1902|08|23}}

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| citizenship = {{JPN}}

| nationality = Japanese

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| field = algebraic geometry

| work_institutions = Kyoto University
Gunma University

| alma_mater = Kyoto University

| doctoral_advisor = Masazo Sono

| doctoral_students = Satoshi Suzuki

Hideyuki Matsumura

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Yasuo Akizuki (23 August 1902 – 11 July 1984) was a Japanese mathematician.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6jrCAAAQBAJ|title=Miscellanea Mathematica|first1=M.|last1=Atiyah|first2=F.L.|last2=Bauer|first3=H.|last3=Cartan|first4=S.-S.|last4=Chern|first5=F.|last5=Hirzebruch|first6=J.H.|last6=Conway|first7=B.|last7=Eckmann|first8=L.D.|last8=Faddeev|first9=Reinhold|last9=Remmert|first10=H.|last10=Grauert|first11=H.|last11=Hironaka|first12=L.|last12=Hormander|first13=F.|last13=John|first14=M.|last14=Koecher|first15=R.|last15=Narasimhan|first16=C.|last16=Reid|first17=J-P.|last17=Serre|first18=N.J.A.|last18=Sloane|first19=J.|last19=Tits|first20=A.|last20=Weil|first21=D.|last21=Zagier|publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg|page=164|date=December 6, 2012|isbn=9783642767098|via=Google Books}} He was a professor at Kyoto University.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bkBPDwAAQBAJ|title=New Trends In Stochastic Analysis: Proceedings Of The Tanaguchi International Symposium|page=7|first1=Ichiro|last1=Shigekawa|first2=K David|last2=Elworthy|first3=S|last3=Kusuoka|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company|date=May 5, 1997|isbn=9789814547123|via=Google Books}} Alongside Wolfgang Krull, Oscar Zariski, and Masayoshi Nagata, he is famous for his early work in commutative algebra. In particular, he is most well known in helping to demonstrate Akizuki–Hopkins–Levitzki theorem.