Hoang Xuan Sinh, 91, is Vietnam's first female mathematics professor
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A portrait of Alexandre Grothendieck hangs in the entrance to lecture halls at Hanoi's Thang Long University, which Hoang Xuan Sinh founded
Sinh, pictured, met Grothendieck, one of the most important figures of 20th-century mathematics, in 1967 when he was teaching algebra to stude…
As American bombers flew overhead, pioneering professor Hoang Xuan Sinh completed her thesis by the light of a kerosene lamp in the Vietnamese…