Reiko Sakamoto (mathematician)

Reiko Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本 礼子, born 1939) is a Japanese mathematician affiliated with Nara Women's University.^[1] Her teachers have included Sigeru Mizohata and Masaya Yamaguchi;^[2] her students have included Yoshihiro Shibata.^[3] She is known for her research on mixed boundary conditions for hyperbolic partial differential equations,^[4] for which she won the 1974 Iyanaga Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan,^[5] and for her book on hyperbolic boundary value problems.^[6]