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Professor Shing-Tung Yau is the first person of Chinese descent who has been awarded the Fields Medal, the top prize in mathematics. In 2009, he returned to China from the United States and founded the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University with an objective to make Tsinghua’s academic level in mathematics the best in the world. Now more than a decade has passed, has this world-famous mathematician achieved his objective? Join us to find out.
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Professor Shing-Tung Yau is the first person of Chinese descent who has been awarded the Fields Medal, the top prize in mathematics. In 2009, he returned to China from the United States and founded the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University with an objective to make Tsinghua’s academic level in mathematics the best in the world. Now more than a decade has passed, has this world-famous mathematician achieved his objective? Join us to find out.

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