Yang-Hui He
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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In fact, one third of Churn's ashes is buried outside of a math institute.
There's a great beautiful marble tomb.
Interesting.
Uh and one one third not because of any mathematical reason.
It's just that he considers he considered three parts of his home.
Mm-hmm.
So um
the the the co the the ho his hometown in Zhejiang, China.
And uh Berkeley, where he did most of his professional career.
And then Nankai University, where he retired to for the last twenty years of his life.
So a third each.
And in fact, I was gonna joke.
So uh the in Chen Simon's theory in three dimensions.
There's this topological theory, the chan in Chen Simon's theory.
Um there's the there's a crucial factor of one third.
Uh I always joke, you know, that's that's why Churn chose one third for his ashes, but that's no right.
Complete coincidence.
But it's it's actually what what is actually interesting is the that tomb, that beautiful black marble tomb, you know, uh for for somebody as great as Chern, it it mentions nothing about, you know, his his chief done this, done the other thing.
It's just one page of his notebook.
I mean you think about the poor guy who had a chisel or that he have no idea what he's chiseling, right?
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