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My Take
Gang Tian is a mathematician whose work sits at the dizzying frontier of geometry, and I find that kind of intellect humbling. A Nanjing-born scholar who studied at Peking University, he made his name in Kähler geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and geometric analysis, fields most of us will never grasp. The hardware backs it up: the Veblen Prize in 1996, the Waterman Award in 1994, and a fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. What I appreciate is his dual footing, a professor at Peking University and emeritus at Princeton, bridging Chinese and American mathematics. That's quiet, generational influence.
Overview
Tian Gang (Chinese: 田刚; born November 24, 1958) is a Chinese mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at Peking University and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He is known for contributions to the mathematical fields of Kähler geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and geometric analysis.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Gang Tian
- Name (Japanese)
- 田剛
- Reading
- でん・ごう
- Born
- November 24, 1958 (age 67)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Dog
- Origin
- Nanjing, People's Republic of China
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- mathematician / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Nanjing Jinling High School
- University
- Peking University
Awards & achievements
- 1996 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
- 1994 Alan T. Waterman Award
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://tian.bicmr.pku.edu.cn
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E5%89%9B
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.