According to Sohu , on September 11, world-famous mathematician Kenji Fukaya held his first class at the Qiuchengtong Center for Mathematical Sciences at Tsinghua University (China).

His lectures on Symplectic geometry—the study of space where objects such as planets and moving particles interact with each other—attracted the interest of students and faculty at the school.

In a video shared by Tsinghua University, Professor Kenji Fukaya expressed: "When I stand here teaching Chinese students, their high concentration and dedication to Mathematics reminds me of my youth." In addition to his role as a full-time professor at Tsinghua University, he also works at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (China).

In 1981, Mr. Kenji Fukaya graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo (Japan). In 1986, he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Boundaries of Riemannian manifolds with limited curvature and diameter , under the guidance of Professor Akio Hattori - a famous Japanese mathematician.

Mathematician Kenji Fukaya leaves the US to teach at Tsinghua University. Photo source: Stony Brook University

After graduating with a doctorate, he was retained by the University of Tokyo, going from research assistant to associate professor of Mathematics. In 1994, he was appointed professor by the school at the age of 35. In 2013, he decided to go to the US as a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University (USA).

During his time here, he made many important contributions to the field of Mathematics. Before that, he focused on Riemannian Geometry but did not make much of an impression. After 1990, Professor Kenji Fukaya switched to studying Symplectic Geometry - the field that brought his name to the world Mathematics community.

His research on Symplectic Geometry of simplectic spaces has made him one of the most famous mathematicians in the world to date. In addition, Professor Kenji Fukaya is also the discoverer of the Fukaya category - a work closely related to Kontsevich's mirror-symmetry algebra conjecture (1994).

When mentioning him, we must mention his success in proving the Arnold conjecture - a branch of Differential Geometry and constructing generalized Gromov-Witten (GW) invariants - integers that count the number of rational curves on a complex or symplectic manifold that satisfy certain conditions.

Returning to China to work this time, Professor Kenji Fukaya has devoted much of his heart to training talents. He hopes that this will be a fertile ground for future mathematical talents to thrive.

During his career in Mathematics, Professor Kenji Fukaya received a number of awards such as: Geometry Prize of the Mathematical Society of Japan (1989) and Spring Prize (1994), Inoue Prize (2002), Prize of the Japan Academy (2003), Asahi Prize (2009) and Fujihara Prize (2012)...

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