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China is ready to start producing its own top mathematicians: Shing-Tung Yau • Mar. 30, 2025, 11:44 PM ET (South China Morning Post)

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Born April 4, 1949 (age 76) • Shantou • China
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1983)
Subjects Of Study differential geometry • elliptic equation
Chern, Shiing-shen
Shiing-shen Chern
American mathematician
Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
Stephen Smale
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
Paul Joseph Cohen
American mathematician
William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
American architect
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee
American-born actor
Chen Ning Yang
Chen Ning Yang
American physicist
Harry Hongda Wu
Chinese-American activist
Zhang Ailing
Chinese writer

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