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Loring W. Tu

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Loring W. Tu (杜武亮,[1] Wade–Giles: Tu Wu-liang) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician.

Life

He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the grandson of Taiwanese pharmacologist Tu Tsung-ming.[2]

He currently lives and works in the United States.

Career

He attended McGill University and Princeton University as an undergraduate. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University. His doctoral advisor was Phillip A. Griffiths. His dissertation thesis was titled Hodge Theory and the Local Torelli Problem.[3]

He is currently a professor of mathematics at Tufts University.[3]

He has frequently collaborated with Raoul Bott.

Bibliography

Some of his books and papers are:[4][5]

  • Differential Geometry: Connections, Curvature, and Characteristic Classes (2017) ISBN 9783319550824 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55084-8
  • An Introduction to Manifolds (2007) ISBN 9781441973993 doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7400-6
  • Hodge Theory And The Local Torelli Problem (1983) ISBN 978-0-8218-2279-1
  • Differential Forms In Algebraic Topology (1982, with Raoul Bott) ISBN 9780387906133 doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-3951-0

References

  1. ^ "580. Loring Wuliang Tu 杜武亮 / 2015/09 | History of Taiwanese American".
  2. ^ "Speeches in Celebration of the 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Tu Tsung-ming" (PDF).
  3. ^ a b Professional profile, Tufts University
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ [2]

External links

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