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Harvard’s math department ran into difficulty drawing Kisin away from the University of Chicago after U. Chicago presented him with a more appealing counter-offer, according to math department chair Shing-Tung...
...public. In 2000, ox, monkey and tiger heads from the same water clock surfaced in Hong Kong auctions, sales that were denounced by China's State Bureau of Cultural Relics. "It's ridiculous that they brought them back to a part of China to be sold," says Tsang Kin-shing, a Hong Kong district councilor who helped organize public protests against the auctions. "If we stole the Eiffel Tower and ... took it to France to auction, the French people would definitely not be happy...
...have great respect for the heroes who reflect Asia's true spirit by shaping history and touching humanity in humble ways. Most of those on your list are in that category. But I found it rather disturbing that you included the richest man in Asia, business magnate Li Ka-shing. Li's great wealth hardly qualifies him as a hero in my book. As an Asian, I would like to think that while our continent's emergence as a global powerhouse is symbolized by the superlative wealth of businessmen like Li, there are many other heroes representing the genuine spirit...
...most visibly with the resignation of Larry Summers, and to a lesser extent, with the vicious show trials of students Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, Eugene Plotkin ’00, and Nick Sylvester ‘04. Below, you’ll also find the story of Shing-Tung Yau, a Harvard mathematician who has recently come under fire in The New Yorker. This is a scrutiny about what it’s like to be branded, and what it’s like to try to win back your name. Careful when you read it, though: most...
Acording to Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, the first time journalist Sylvia Nasar got in touch with him for a story she was writing for the New Yorker, she told him she was interested in the fusion of math and physics as represented in the age-old Poincare Conjecture. Yau, a Harvard string theorist, had a lot to say on the subject—two of his mentees had just completed a full proof of the Conjecture, which had gone unsolved for a hundred years. He happily agreed to talk to her, according to the New Yorker...