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Wu-Chung Hsiang

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he became in 1962 a lecturer, in 1963 an assistant professor, and in 1968 a full professor. At Princeton University he was a full professor from 1972 until retiring in 2006 as professor emeritus and was the department chair from 1982 to 1985. He was a visiting scholar at the
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Hsiang, Wu-Chung. "Geometric applications of algebraic K-theory." In Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, vol. 1, p. 2. 1983.
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Hsiang, Wu-Chung: Borel's conjecture, Novikov's conjecture and K-theoretic analogues, in: Algebra, Analysis and Topology, World Scientific 1989
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From 1967 to 1969 he was a Sloan Fellow and for the academic year 1975–1976 a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1980 he was elected a member of
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Algebraic & Differential Topology: A Conference in Honor of Wu-chung's 70th Birthday, Stanford U., August 6th and 7th, 2005
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and gave proofs for special cases. For example, they gave a proof of the integral Novikov conjecture for compact
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Hsiang has made important contributions to algebraic and differential topology. Works by Hsiang,
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for the academic years 1965–1966, 1971–1972, and 1979–1980. He was a visiting professor at the
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Fake tori, the annulus conjecture, and the conjectures of Kirby.
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Actes Congr. Int. Mathématiciens (1970): Tome 2, 73–77.
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from 1982 to 1985 and was one of the most influential
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He was an Invited Speaker at the 144:University of California, Berkeley 14: 608:National Taiwan University alumni 257:and a Plenary Speaker in 1983 in 268:His doctoral students include 51: 42: 16:Chinese-American mathematician 1: 348:Mathematics Genealogy Project 643:Mathematicians from Zhejiang 618:Princeton University faculty 128:Institute for Advanced Study 31:when mentioning individuals. 659: 603:Members of Academia Sinica 103:National Taiwan University 18: 364:Princeton Weekly Bulletin 459:Inventiones Mathematicae 324:archives.lib.nthu.edu.tw 27:. 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personal name
Western name order
Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Zhejiang
topology
Mathematics
Princeton University
topologists
Wenzhou
Zhejiang
National Taiwan University
Ph.D.
Norman Steenrod
Princeton University
Yale University
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Warwick
University of Amsterdam
University of Bonn
University of California, Berkeley
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Stanford University
Julius Shaneson
C. T. C. Wall
Robion Kirby
Laurent Siebenmann
Andrew Casson
annulus theorem

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