Vietnamese mathematician Dang Quang Tuan, 31, is now a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University working in differential geometry under Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau. The article describes his transition from expected rural high school teaching to advanced research at a leading Chinese institution.
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Dang Quang Tuan once expected to teach math at a Vietnamese high school. Instead, the 31-year-old is now a postdoctoral researcher at Tsinghua University, working in differential geometry under Shing-Tung Yau, the first ethnic Chinese Fields medalist and a leading architect of modern Chinese mathematics.
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