Loring W. Tu

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Loring Wuliang Tu (born August 17, 1952 in Taipei ) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician.

Tu studied at McGill University and Princeton University and received his doctorate in 1979 under Phillip Griffiths at Harvard University (Variation of Hodge Structure and the Local Torelli Problem). He has taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and Johns Hopkins University and is a professor at Tufts University .

He has been at the Institute for Advanced Study , the University of Paris VII and the Institut Henri Poincaré , among others .

Tu dealt with algebraic geometry (including Hodge's theory), differential geometry and algebraic topology including a textbook with Raoul Bott on differential forms and algebraic topology.

Fonts

  • Hodge Theory and the Local Torelli Problem, Memoirs AMS 1983
  • with Raoul Bott: Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, Springer 1982
  • An Introduction to Manifolds, 2008, 2nd edition, Springer 2011
  • Differential Geometry: Connections, Curvature and Characteristic Classes, Springer 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Loring W. Tu in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Tu, Loring W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tu, Loring Wuliang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Taiwanese-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Taipei