Hsien Chung Wang
Hsien Chung Wang | |
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| 王宪钟 | |
| Born | 18 April 1918 Beijing |
| Died | 25 June 1978 (aged 60) New York City |
| Education | Tsinghua University Manchester University |
| Known for | Wang sequence Boothby-Wang construction |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Workplaces | Academia Sinica Louisiana State University Institute for Advanced Study Alabama Polytechnic Institute University of Washington in Seattle Columbia University in New York Northwestern University Cornell University |
| Thesis | I. Homogeneous spaces with non-vanishing Euler characteristics. II. Simply-connected homogeneous manifolds with prime Euler characteristics (1948) |
| Max Newman | |
Doctoral students | Stephen Halperin |
Hsien Chung (or Hsien-Chung or Hsien-chung) Wang (王宪钟 Wang Xian Zhong; 18 April 1918 in Beijing – 25 June 1978 in New York City) was a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry, Lie groups, and algebraic topology.