Wu-Chung Hsiang
Wu-Chung Hsiang | |||||||||||||||
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| 項武忠 | |||||||||||||||
Wu in 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 June 1935 Anhui, China | ||||||||||||||
| Education | National Taiwan University (BS) Princeton University (PhD) | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Kuo Yu-pei (郭譽珮) (m. 1962) | ||||||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||||||
| Fields | Differential topology | ||||||||||||||
| Institutions | Yale University Princeton University Academia Sinica | ||||||||||||||
| Thesis | Obstructions to sectioning fibre bundles (1962) | ||||||||||||||
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Steenrod | ||||||||||||||
| Doctoral students | Ruth Charney, F. Thomas Farrell, Kiyoshi Igusa Thomas Goodwillie, Michael W. Davis, Lowell E. Jones | ||||||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 項武忠 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 项武忠 | ||||||||||||||
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Wu-Chung Hsiang (Chinese: 項武忠; born 12 June 1935) 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.