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Harvard math professor to set up fund at Tsinghua University
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-27 17:25
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BEIJING: Chinese American mathematics professor Shing-Tung Yau with the Harvard University announced Monday in Beijing that he would set up a fund at China's elite Tsinghua University to encourage students with prowess in mathematics.
In February, Yau and Stony Brook University's Dennis Sullivan were named as winners of Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize in mathematics. Yau has been chosen for his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics, according to a statement posted at the website of Wolf Foundation.
The two would also share a monetary award of 100,000 U.S. dollars.
Yau promised Monday to donate his share of money from the Wolf Prize as the financing of the new fund which will be named after him.
