Fang-hua Lin
Fang-Hua Lin , also Fanghua Lin , (born March 11, 1959 in the Zhenhai District of Ningbo , Zhejiang Province , China ) is a Sino-American mathematician who deals with analysis.
Lin graduated from Zhejiang University in 1981 and then went to the United States, where he received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota with Robert Hardt in 1985 ( Regularity for a Class of Parametric Obstacle Problems ). From 1985 to 1988 he was an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , where he has been a professor since 1989 (after he was professor at the University of Chicago in 1988/89 ). He is the Silver Professor of Mathematics there.
Lin examined the Ginzburg-Landau equations (nonlinear partial differential equations of the second order, similar to the time-independent Schrödinger equation) , which are important in superconductivity and the theory of phase transitions, using "hard" analysis methods.
He was a Sloan Research Fellow from 1989 to 1991 and a Presidential Young Investigator from 1989 to 1994 . In 2002 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize . In 2004 he received the Chern Prize . He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004 and of the American Mathematical Society since 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fang-Hua Lin in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
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| SURNAME | Lin, Fang-hua |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhenhai , Ningbo , Zhejiang , China |