Harvard Prof Sets up Tsinghua Math Fund
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Transtlate Chinese American mathematics professor Shing-Tung Yau with the Harvard University announced early this week in Beijing that he would set up a fund at Tsinghua University to encourage students with prowess in mathematics, especially among low income students.
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 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.
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.
Yau said that he hopes that the fund, which will bear his name, will help the university's students "achieve high scholarship" so "that they may be awarded the Wolf Prize in the future."
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