Wu Wenjun
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wu
Wu Wenjun (吴文俊) (May 12, 1919 - ) born in Shanghai, China is a Chinese mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from Chiao Tung University (currently Shanghai Jiao Tong University) in 1940. In 1947, he went to France for further study in University of Strasbourg. In 1949, he got his national doctor's degree of France. In 1957, he was elected as an academician of the China Academy of Sciences (CAS). 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 Award in 2006.
The research of Wu includes the following fields: algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, game theory, history of mathematics, mathematics mechanization, and his most important contribution is to topology (the Wu class and Wu formula), which is somewhat foundational in its field.
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