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Chen Wen-chen (Chinese: 陳文成; pinyin: Chén Wénchéng, sometimes romanized as Chen Wen-cheng) was a Taiwanese assistant professor of mathematics (specializing in probability and statistics) at Carnegie Mellon University who died on 3 July 1981 (aged 31) under mysterious circumstances. After the conclusion of his third year of teaching, he ...
Chen Wen-chen, 31, an assistant mathematics professor in the United States at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was killed by security police during a vacation in his homeland in Taiwan. [ 16 ]
In 1946, he became professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. [1] He wrote a letter of recommendation to Princeton University for John Forbes Nash, Jr. , later a Nobel laureate. In 1949, Duffin and his student Raoul Bott developed a generalized method of synthesising networks without transformers which were required in earlier methods.
Po-Shen Loh (Chinese: 罗博深; born June 18, 1982) is an American mathematician specializing in combinatorics.Loh teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2014 to 2023 served as the national coach of the United States' International Mathematical Olympiad team.
Walter Noll (January 7, 1925 – June 6, 2017) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics, thermodynamics, and continuum mechanics. [1]
Hugh D. Young (Ph.D. 1959), longtime Professor who taught Physics for over 50 years at Carnegie Mellon. Professor Young was co-author of the later editions of the highly regarded textbook University Physics, now in its 15th edition, and received many of Carnegie Mellon's highest awards.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, DeGroot graduated from Roosevelt University and earned master's and doctor's degrees from the University of Chicago.DeGroot joined Carnegie Mellon in 1957 and became a University Professor, the school's highest faculty position, serving in that position until his death from lung cancer in 1989.
Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist and professor at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University. He is best known for his pioneering work in programming languages and was the first recipient of the Turing Award. [1]