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MATHEMATICIAN

Fan Chung

1949 - Today

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Fan-Rong King Chung Graham (Chinese: 金芳蓉; pinyin: Jīn Fāngróng; born October 9, 1949), known professionally as Fan Chung, is an American mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and random graphs, in particular in generalizing the Erdős–Rényi model for graphs with general degree distribution (including power-law graphs in the study of large information networks). Since 1998, Chung has been the Paul Erdős Professor in Combinatorics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fan Chung has received more than 177,541 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Fan Chung is the 877th most popular mathematician (down from 792nd in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Taiwan (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Fan Chung ranks 877 out of 823Before her are Peter Sarnak, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Artur Avila, Keith Devlin, Irving Kaplansky, and Henry John Stephen Smith. After her are Adele Goldstine, Marcus du Sautoy, Richard Schoen, Alessio Figalli, Alexander Beilinson, and Martin Hairer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Fan Chung ranks 667Before her are Ron Wyden, Robert Lindsay, Sandy Martin, Alfredo Quesada, Warwick Brown, and Khil Raj Regmi. After her are Mitch Daniels, Dan Barker, Frank L. Culbertson Jr., David Perdue, James S. Voss, and Janusz Pyciak-Peciak.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Fan Chung ranks 59 out of 97Before her are Charlie Yeung (1974), Ariel Lin (1982), Kobe Tai (1972), Show Lo (1979), Vic Chou (1981), and Rene Liu (1970). After her are Eddie Peng (1982), Mark Chao (1984), Aaron Yan (1985), Michelle Chen (1983), Ken Chu (1979), and Jiang Yi-huah (1960).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Taiwan

Among mathematicians born in Taiwan, Fan Chung ranks 1