The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Hong Kong
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Hong Kong. This makes Hong Kong the birth place of the 62nd most number of Mathematicians behind Taiwan and Peru.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Chinese Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Lai-Sang Young (1952 - )
With an HPI of 32.53, Lai-Sang Young is the most famous Chinese Mathematician. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Lai-Sang Lily Young (Chinese: 楊麗笙, born 1952) is a Hong Kong-born American mathematician who holds the Henry & Lucy Moses Professorship of Science and is a professor of mathematics and neural science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. Her research interests include dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, probability theory, statistical mechanics, and neuroscience. She is particularly known for introducing the method of Markov returns in 1998, which she used to prove exponential correlation delay in Sinai billiards and other hyperbolic dynamical systems.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mathematicians include Lai-Sang Young.
