Loring W. Tu
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Loring W. Tu (��武亮,[1] Wade–Giles: Tu Wu-liang) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician.
Life[]
He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the grandson of Taiwanese pharmacologist Tu Tsung-ming.[2]
He currently lives and works in the United States.
Career[]
He attended McGill University and Princeton University as an undergraduate. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His doctoral advisor was Phillip A. Griffiths. His dissertation thesis was titled Hodge Theory and the Local Torelli Problem.[3]
He is currently a professor of mathematics at Tufts University.[3]
He has frequently collaborated with Raoul Bott.
Bibliography[]
Some of his books and papers are:[4][5]
- Differential Geometry: Connections, Curvature, and Characteristic Classes (2017) ISBN 9783319550824 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55084-8
- An Introduction to Manifolds (2007) ISBN 9781441973993 doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7400-6
- Hodge Theory And The Local Torelli Problem (1983) ISBN 978-0-8218-2279-1
- Differential Forms In Algebraic Topology (1982, with Raoul Bott) ISBN 9780387906133 doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-3951-0
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Categories:
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- 1952 births
- Living people
- McGill University alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Tufts University faculty
- 20th-century American mathematicians