Yuan Yaxiang

Professor, Academician

Institution
Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Country
China

Field
Mathematics

Yuan received The World Academy of Sciences 2014 prize in mathematics for developing numerical methods for nonlinear optimization.

(Photo: Yuan Yaxiang)


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