Wu Wenjun

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name = Wu Wenjun

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birth_place = Shanghai, China
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nationality = CHN
field = Mathematics
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alma_mater = Jiaotong University
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prizes = Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2006)
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Wu Wenjun (Wu Wen-Tsün, 吳文俊) (b. May 12 1919) is a Chinese mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Wu was born in Shanghai, China where he would later graduate from Chiao Tung University (currently Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) in 1940. In 1947, he went to France for further study at the University of Strasbourg. In 1949, he received his PhD, for his thesis "Sur les classes caractéristiques des structures fibrées sphériques", written under the direction of Charles Ehresmann.

In 1957, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1990, he was elected as an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences.

Along with Yuan Longping, he was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award by President Jiang Zemin in 2000, when this highest scientific and technological prize in China began to be awarded. He also received the Shaw Prize in 2006.

The research of Wu includes the following fields: algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, game theory, history of mathematics, mathematics mechanization. His most important contributions are to algebraic topology. The Wu class and the Wu formula are named after him.

He is also active in the field of history of Chinese mathematics, he was the chief editor of the eight volume Grand Series of Chinese Mathematics, covering from antiquity to late Qin dynasty.

References

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*cite web | author=Wenjun Wu| title=Autobiography of Professor Wu Wentsun | url=http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2006/mathematical/Mumford_Wu/autobiography/Wu.html | publisher=The Shaw Prize Foundation | date=2006 | accessdate=2007-09-16