Hsien Chung Wang


Hsien Chung Wang was a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry, Lie groups, and algebraic topology.

Biography

Part of a family, from Shantung Province, that had produced distinguished scholars for several generations, Hsien Chung Wang studied in Tientsin at Nankai High School, where he had an outstanding academic record. In 1936 he matriculated at Tsing Hua University in Beijing.
After completing his Ph.D., Wang went to the United States.
He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1958 in Edinburgh. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1960–1961. The Wang sequence used in algebraic topology is named in his honor.
He married in 1956 and was the father of three daughters. His doctoral students include J. Stephen Halperin.

Selected publications