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Lin Fanghua

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Lin Fanghua (1959-): A mathematician native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University in 1981. He received the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. From 1985 to 1987, he worked as a teaching assistant at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. In 1988, he served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. In 1989, he returned to New York University as a tenured professor at the Colon Institute. In 1990, he was invited to give a 45-minute academic report in the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.

He has made great contributions to geometric measurement theory, partial differential equations, geometric analysis, etc. His research in the equation properties of liquid crystal lattice combinations is recognized as the model in this regard.