Summary
Jang-Mei Wu is a Taiwanese-American mathematician specializing in complex analysis, potential theory, quasiconformal mapping, and partial differential equations. She is a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1]
Education edit
Wu did her undergraduate studies at National Taiwan University.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation, An integral problem for positive harmonic functions, was supervised by Maurice Heins.[3]
Recognition edit
With Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Fan Chung, Winnie Li, Mei-Chi Shaw, and Chuu-Lian Terng, Wu is one of a group of six women mathematicians from National Taiwan University called by Shiing-Shen Chern "a miracle in Chinese history; the glory of the Chinese people".[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in the 2020 class, for "contributions to conformal and quasiconformal mapping theory and potential theory".[4]
References edit
- ^ "Jang-Mei Wu", Directory, University of Illinois Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2019-11-03
- ^ a b Shaw, Mei-Chi (2014), "A woman mathematician's journey", ICCM Notices, 2 (1): 59–74, doi:10.4310/ICCM.2014.v2.n1.a11, MR 3237703. Reprinted in Casazza, Peter; Krantz, Steven G.; Ruden, Randi D. (2015), I, Mathematician, MAA Spectrum, Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, pp. 227–250, ISBN 978-0-88385-585-0, MR 3362652. See in particular p. 70 of ICCM Notices or pp. 243–244 of I, Mathematician.
- ^ Jang-Mei Wu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ 2020 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2019-11-03