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Wu-Chung Hsiang

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American mathematician

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1935 · age 91
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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.

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1989Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Guggenheim Fellowship

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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.

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Born 1935 · age 91
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