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Chang-Shou Lin

b. 1951

Taiwanese mathematician

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Born 1951. Chang-Shou Lin is a Taiwanese mathematician and researcher.

Chang-Shou Lin (; born 17 April 1951) is a Taiwanese mathematician.

Education and career Lin completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics at National Taiwan University. and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study between 1984 and 1985. He taught at NTU from 1987 to 1990, when he joined the faculty of National Chung Cheng University. Lin was director of the National Center for Theoretical Sciences between 1993 and 2003. Lin was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1998, received the Morningside Medal that same year, and was awarded Taiwan's in 2001. 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, and has signed petitions backing required mathematics education for Taiwanese senior high school students, and against the nuclear energy question posed by the 2018 Taiwanese referendum.

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National Taiwan University, New York University
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University of California, San Diego

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Who is Chang-Shou Lin?

Taiwanese mathematician

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Chang-Shou Lin was born on 17 April 1951.

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Chang-Shou Lin is a mathematician and researcher.

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Chang-Shou Lin is Taiwanese.

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· Wikipedia: Chang-Shou Lin

· Wikidata: Q8983364

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