Tien Yien Li

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Nationality United States Fields Mathematics		Role Professor of mathematics Name Tien-Yien Li Doctoral advisor James A. Yorke

Institutions Michigan State University Alma mater National Tsing Hua University (1968) University of Maryland, College Park Ph.D (1974) Education University of Maryland, College Park (1974) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship

Tien-Yien Li (李天岩) (born 1945) is a University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Li and co-author James Yorke published a paper in 1975 entitled Period three implies chaos, in which the mathematical term chaos was coined.

Awards and honors

Guggenheim Fellow, 1995

Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, 1996

Distinguished Faculty Award, Michigan State University, 1996

J.S.Frame Teaching Award, 1996

University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, 1998

Distinguished Alumni, College of Sciences, Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2002

Outstanding Academic Advisor Award, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, 2006

References

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