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Lai-Sang Young

1952 - Today

Lai-Sang Young

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lai-Sang Young is the 994th most popular mathematician (down from 896th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Hong Kong (down from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Lai-Sang Young ranks 994 out of 1,004. Before her are Hugo Duminil-Copin, Manjul Bhargava, Steven Strogatz, Robert J. Lang, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, and Akshay Venkatesh. After her are Daniel J. Bernstein, Jennifer Tour Chayes, Pietro Boselli, Ben Green, Noam Elkies, and Hannah Fry.

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Hugo Duminil-Copin
1985 - Present
HPI: 44.51
Rank: 988
Manjul Bhargava
1974 - Present
HPI: 44.30
Rank: 989
Steven Strogatz
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 990
Robert J. Lang
1961 - Present
HPI: 43.65
Rank: 991
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
1966 - Present
HPI: 42.95
Rank: 992
Akshay Venkatesh
1981 - Present
HPI: 42.57
Rank: 993
Lai-Sang Young
1952 - Present
HPI: 41.85
Rank: 994
Daniel J. Bernstein
1971 - Present
HPI: 41.65
Rank: 995
Jennifer Tour Chayes
1956 - Present
HPI: 40.29
Rank: 996
Pietro Boselli
1988 - Present
HPI: 40.29
Rank: 997
Ben Green
1977 - Present
HPI: 38.90
Rank: 998
Noam Elkies
1966 - Present
HPI: 38.47
Rank: 999
Hannah Fry
1984 - Present
HPI: 31.65
Rank: 1,000

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Lai-Sang Young ranks 776. Before her are Urvashi Butalia, William F. Readdy, Armelia McQueen, Christine Prinsloo, Joe Johnson, and Medea Benjamin. After her are Marvin Barnes, Rohini Godbole, John Lynch, Pat Summitt, Ernie Fletcher, and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

Others Born in 1952

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Urvashi Butalia
WRITER
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.85
Rank: 770
William F. Readdy
ASTRONAUT
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.73
Rank: 771
Armelia McQueen
ACTOR
1952 - 2020
HPI: 42.66
Rank: 772
Christine Prinsloo
ATHLETE
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.29
Rank: 773
Joe Johnson
SNOOKER
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.12
Rank: 774
Medea Benjamin
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1952 - Present
HPI: 41.89
Rank: 775
Lai-Sang Young
MATHEMATICIAN
1952 - Present
HPI: 41.85
Rank: 776
Marvin Barnes
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1952 - 2014
HPI: 41.84
Rank: 777
Rohini Godbole
PHYSICIST
1952 - 2024
HPI: 41.73
Rank: 778
John Lynch
POLITICIAN
1952 - Present
HPI: 41.55
Rank: 779
Pat Summitt
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1952 - 2016
HPI: 41.22
Rank: 780
Ernie Fletcher
POLITICIAN
1952 - Present
HPI: 40.77
Rank: 781
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1952 - Present
HPI: 40.74
Rank: 782