Biography:Chang-Shou Lin
Chang-Shou Lin (Chinese: 林長壽; born 17 April 1951) is a Taiwanese mathematician.
Lin completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at National Taiwan University.[1] He then completed doctoral study at New York University in the United States in 1983,[1] and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study between 1984 and 1985.[2] He taught at NTU from 1987 to 1990, when he joined the faculty of National Chung Cheng University.[1][3] Lin was director of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences between 1993 and 2003.[1] In 2006, Lin returned to NTU as director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences.[1]
In his research, Lin has explored mean field theory and Eisenstein series.[4][5] Lin was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1998, received the Morningside Medal that same year, and was awarded Taiwan's Presidential Science Prize (zh) in 2001.[1] He is an editor of the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics, published by Academia Sinica.[6] In 2014, Lin was invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians conference in Seoul, South Korea.
Lin was critical of the Democratic Progressive Party response to the Sunflower Student Movement,[7] and has signed petitions backing required mathematics education for Taiwanese senior high school students,[8] and against the nuclear energy question posed by the 2018 Taiwanese referendum.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Chang-Shou Lin". Academia Sinica. https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=215&_lang=en.
- ↑ "Chang-Shou Lin". Institute of Advanced Study. https://www.ias.edu/scholars/chang-shou-lin.
- ↑ "Chang-Shou Lin". National Tsing Hua University. http://math.cts.nthu.edu.tw/Mathematics/academic_c/CSLin.html.
- ↑ "Lakeside lectures Speaker: Chang-Shou Lin". Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica. 4 May 2015. https://www.math.sinica.edu.tw/www/poster_upload/20150504-Lakeside.pdf.
- ↑ Dubedat, Julien (23 October 2015). "Nov. 18: Chang-Shou Lin (National Taiwan U.)". Columbia University. https://www.math.columbia.edu/2015/10/23/nov-18-chang-shou-lin-national-taiwan-u/.
- ↑ "Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics". Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica. https://web.math.sinica.edu.tw/bulletin/.
- ↑ Lin, Chang-shou (12 April 2014). "DPP's reaction to protest is troubling". Taipei Times. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2014/04/12/2003587825.
- ↑ Lee, I-chia (5 June 2014). "Academicians upset by planned math cuts". Taipei Times. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/06/05/2003592023.
- ↑ Lin, Rachel (5 November 2018). "Academics push petition against key referendum". Taipei Times. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/11/05/2003703619.