Yukio Matsumoto

{{Short description|Japanese mathematician}}

Yukio Matsumoto ({{Lang|ja|松本 幸夫}}, Matsumoto Yukio; born 1944) is a Japanese mathematician, who worked mostly in the field of geometric topology and low-dimensional topology. He was a former professor for mathematics at the university of Tokyo.{{cite web |url=https://researchmap.jp/read0007856?lang=en |title=Yukio Matsumoto |website=researchmap.jp |publisher=researchmap |access-date=2022-11-08 }}

He received his Ph.D. in 1973 from the university of Tokyo and his supervisor was Ichiro Tamura.{{MathGenealogyProject|id=98278}}

In 1984 he won the Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mathsoc.jp/en/list/winners-list.html|title=List of Spring and Autumn Prizes Winners|website=www.mathsoc.jp}}https://www.gakushuin.ac.jp/univ/new/pamphlet-english.pdf

Selected publications

= Books =

== Solo ==

  • {{cite book|first= Yukio|last=Matsumoto|title=An Introduction to Morse Theory|series=Translations of Mathematical Monographs|ISBN=978-0821810224|year=2001}}

== Joint ==

  • {{cite book|author1= Kojima, Sadayoshi|author2= Matsumoto, Yukio|author3= Saito, Kyōji|author4=Seppälä, Mika|title = Topology and Teichmüller spaces |publisher=World Scientific Publishing|year = 1995|doi=10.1142/3122}}

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