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1. After decades in the US, star Chinese mathematician couple returns home
Mathematician Chen Min has left Purdue University’s maths department to join the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a full-time faculty member, the latest Chinese academic to return home from the US.
2. Maths star Joshua Zahl leaves Canada for China after solving century-old puzzle
China has secured a major academic coup with the recruitment of mathematics luminary Joshua Zahl, recently celebrated for solving the more than 100-year-old three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture.
3. Mathematician Zhong Xiao leaves Finland for China with award-winning work
Award-winning mathematician Professor Zhong Xiao has departed Finland after nearly three decades, bringing his foundational research critical to artificial intelligence back to China.
4. Why did Harvard top mathematician Liu Jun leave the US for China?