ACM Communications in Computer Algebra, Vol 40, No. 2, June 2006 Timely Communication Wen-Tsun Wu s Academic Career Communicated by Xiao-shan Gao, Beijing Wen-Tsun Wu Wu Wen-tsun was born in Shanghai, China on May 12, 1919. He got his B.S. degree in mathematics from Communications University at Shanghai in 1940. Due to warfare, he taught for years in junior middle schools since his graduation from university which caused a complete stop of further learning of mathematics. After the end of Sino-Japanese war in 1945, he became an assistant of the Temporary University, the provisionary re-established Chiao-Tung University, and he was able to revive his mathematical studies. In the summer of 1946, Wu met S.S. Chern who was at that time in charge of the newly established Institute of Mathematics belonging to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It turns out that this meeting was decisive for the future career of Wu in mathematics. Chern admitted Wu as one of the young research assistants in his institute, all learning algebraic topology under his guidance. Wu began to access to modern mathematics, and learned algebraic topology including then yet nascent theory of ber bundles and characteristic classes. One year after Wu
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