Hoàng Xuân Sính

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Hoàng Xuân Sính (born September 8, 1933 in Làng Cót ) is a Vietnamese mathematician.

Hoang Xuan Sinh is the daughter of a fabric manufacturer and, after graduating in English and French in Hanoi in 1951, went to Paris to study mathematics and graduated from the Agrégation in Toulouse in 1959. She then taught mathematics at the Hanoi Pedagogical College. In 1967 she was one of the students of Alexander Grothendieck when he visited North Vietnam for a month and gave lectures there at the university evacuated outside Hanoi. Sinh stayed in contact with Grothendieck by letter and Grothendieck suggested a dissertation topic. In 1975 she received her doctorate from Grothendieck at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot) (Gr-catégories). In it she introduced 2 groups (Gr categories) (a group or groupoid concept in higher category theory). The doctorate took place on the occasion of her stay in France 1974/75 (she also attended the International Congress of Mathematicians 1974 in Vancouver). In addition to Grothendieck, the examination committee included Henri Cartan , Laurent Schwartz and Michel Zisman.

After her return, she received a full professorship in Hanoi (as the first woman in Vietnam in the natural sciences and technology). In 1988 she founded the private Thang Long University in Hanoi (the first private university in unified Vietnam).

In 2003 she received the order of the Palmes académiques. She was named Teacher of the People in Vietnam (the highest educational award in the country).

Fonts

  • Gr-catégories strictes, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, Vol. 3, 1978, pp. 47-59
  • Catégories de Picard restreintes, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, Volume 7, 1982, pp. 117-122

References and comments

  1. ↑ Hoàng Xuân Sính in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Sinh's dissertation ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of Stuttgart, with comments by Grothendieck  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / w5.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de
  3. ↑ Ann Koblitz, Mathematics and gender: Some cross-cultural observations, in Glen Van Brummelen, Michael Kinyon: Mathematics and the Historian's Craft, Springer, 2005, pp. 329-345
  4. ↑ Peter Freyd on the awarding of the Palmes Académiques to Sinh ( Memento of the original of July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / comments.gmane.org
personal data
SURNAME Sính, Hoàng Xuân
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Làng Cót