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Chung has written over papers in mathematics and is the author of two books on graph theory..
Biography
Fan Chung's father was an engineer.Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and science writer who had a long-running column on mathematical recreations in Scientific American.
She attended high school in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and was encouraged to take up mathematics by her father who told her [2]:-
... in math all you need is pencil and paper.She entered the National Taiwan University to read for a B.S.
in mathematics. In [1] she described how she was encouraged to think in terms of a career in mathematics by interaction with her fellow students:-
As an undergraduate in Taiwan, I was surrounded by good friends and many women mathematicians.It was during her years as an undergraduate in Taiwan that she was first attracted to combinatorics, the area in which she was soon to begin research [2]:-We enjoyed talking about mathematics and helping each other.
He published six books and about papers, and had nearly co-authors, including many collaborative works with his wife Fan Chung and with Paul Erdős.A large part of education is learning from your peers, not just the professors. Seeing other women perform well is a great confidence builder, too!
...many problems from combinatorics were easily explained, you could get into them quickly, but getting ou