Dear Mr. Cooper:
We are writing you about the article "Manifold Destiny" by Ms. S. Nasar and Mr. D. Gruber. As a leading mathematician in the world Prof. Yau hastirelessly worked to help many institutions and individuals. In particularwe appreciate very much of his great help to our university in the pastyears. We found the accusations and defamations of Prof. Yau to controlscience in China in the above article baseless and unacceptable.
Prof. Yau has visited USTC quite a few times in my term of presidency. Each time he gave lectures, scientific or public, and his lectures have inspired many students at USTC to pursue science as their career. His insightful lectures have become one of the most celebrated events in USTC.
Prof. Yau recommended several young talented people to join our faculty.People he recommended have made great contributions to our university asthey helped a great deal in strengthening academic and education programs atUSTC. Many of our faculties benefited from interactions with him.
Prof. Yau has helped to set up a scholarship at the University of Scienceand Technology of China. Many of those students benefited from Prof. Yau'sscholarship are now studying mathematics and sciences in China and in US.
Each time Prof. Yau visited our university we only cover local expenses andhe never received any allowance from us. We have offered to reimburse hisinternational tickets and he never taken it.
Prof. Yau provided much help to our university and he has never involved inthe internal affairs in our university. We not only appreciate his greatcontributions to mathematics and sciences we also respect his integrity andhis personality. We are surprised about the above mentioned article and wesincerely wish New Yorker offer their apology to Prof. Yau as it is thecorrect thing to do.
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Professor Qingshi Zhu (signed)
President of University of Science and Technology of China
Hefei, China
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