Lin Fanghua

Fang - Hua Lin, also Fanghua Lin, ( born March 11, 1959 City Zhenhai District of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China) is a Chinese- American mathematician, who deals with Analysis.

Lin made ​​in 1981 graduated from Zhejiang University and then went to the USA, where he in 1985 at the University of Minnesota with Robert Hardt received his doctorate ( Regularity for a Class of Parametric Obstacle problem). 1985 to 1988 he was Instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, where he is professor since 1989 ( after he was 1988/89 Professor at the University of Chicago). There he is Silver Professor of Mathematics.

Lin examined the in superconductivity and the theory of phase transitions important Ginzburg-Landau equations ( second-order nonlinear partial differential equations similar to the time-independent Schrödinger equation) with methods of " hard" analysis.

1989 to 1991 he was Sloan Fellow and Presidential Young Investigator 1989-1994. In 2002 he received the Bôcher Memorial Prize. In 2004 he received the Shiing -shen Chern price. Since 2005 he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.