Tadatoshi Akiba
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Tadatoshi Akiba (秋葉 忠利 Akiba Tadatoshi, born November 3, 1942 in Arakawa, Tokyo) is mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, receiving a B.S. in 1966 and an M.S. in 1968. He continued his studies under John Milnor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1970. He took teaching jobs at a series of universities: State University of New York at Stony Brook (1970), Tufts University (1972–1986), and Hiroshima Shudo University (1986–1997). His research was on topology, with an interest in homotopy groups.
As a member of the Social Democratic Party, he was elected to the House of Representatives, and served from 1990 to 1999. He assumed office as mayor of Hiroshima in February, 1999, and was reelected to this position in 2003.
As mayor, he has been a visible peace activist. He is active in the Mayors for Peace organization, serving as the president of their World Conference. The 2020 Vision Campaign launched in 2003, which aims to eliminate nuclear weapons, has earned Mayors for Peace the "World Citizenship Award" from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 2004, the "Sean McBride" Award from the International Peace Bureau in 2006, and the Nuclear-Free Future Award from the Franz-Moll Foundation in 2007. He has also been an advocate of the abolition of nuclear weapons, and a vocal critic of George W. Bush. Since May 2007 he is also Councillor at the World Future Council.
He is longlisted for the 2008 World Mayor award.
In 2006 he received the Nuclear-Free Future Award in the solutions category.
[edit] Works
[edit] translation
- Linear algebra / Ichiro Satake ; translated by Sebastian Koh, Tadatoshi Akiba, Shin-ichiro Ihara
[edit] External links
- Profile at the Hiroshima city website
- Official Curriculum Vitae
- Mayors for Peace - official website
- Tadatoshi Akiba at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- CityMayors.com feature
- World Future Council
| Preceded by Takashi Hiraoka |
Mayors of Hiroshima 1999-present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
