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ElBaradei, who is the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, said that a new global security system must be founded on “peace rather than war,” calling the latter “a curse which indicates the failure of human beings...
Harvard Mathematics Professor Shing-Tung Yau, one of this year’s two winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, announced on Monday that he intends use his portion of the award to create a fund at China’s Tsinghua University to support the study of mathematics, especially among low income students...
Although Yau—who won the Fields Medal in 1982 and currently serves as the chair of the Harvard Mathematics Department—never attended Tsinghua, he said he decided to donate his prize money to this top Chinese university because it has produced extraordinary mathematics talent in the past...
...added that he hopes that the fund, which will bear his name, will help the university’s students “achieve high scholarship” so “that they may [also] be awarded the Wolf Prize in the future...
Stony Brook University Professor Dennis P. Sullivan, who shares this year’s prize for mathematics with Yau, will also be recognized during the upcoming ceremony for his work in algebraic topology and conformal dynamics...