# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-chung-hsiang
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:15:02.277Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wu-chung-hsiang"
name: "Wu-Chung Hsiang"
slug: "wu-chung-hsiang"
description: "Wu-Chung Hsiang is a Taiwanese mathematician and topologist. He was highly influential in the field of differential topology as a professor at Yale University and then Princeton University, where he was the chairman of the mathematics department from 1982 to 1985. He has been described as one of the most influential topologists of the second half of the 20th century."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wu-Chung_Hsiang_1975_(bordered).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.013356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Chung_Hsiang"
    title: "Wu-Chung Hsiang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Chung_Hsiang"
    title: "Wu-Chung Hsiang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Chung_Hsiang"
    title: "Wu-Chung Hsiang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8F%D0%BD_%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Сян Учжун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A1%B9%E6%AD%A6%E5%BF%A0"
    title: "项武忠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2594597"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump