Japanese mathematician Kenji Fukaya has received an award in Hong Kong for his pioneering work in geometry, becoming the third Japanese laureate of the Shaw Prize, regarded by some as the "Nobel Prize of the East."The 66-year-old, who formerly worked at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, was presented with the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in Hong Kong on Oct. 21.The other two past Japanese laureates of the Shaw Prize, which is also awarded in the categories of astronomy and medicine and life sciences, are stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka, who won in 2008, and molecular…READ FULL ARTICLE
