Dr. Frank Wang

Wang Education

Frank Wang was a 1982 delegate from Oklahoma. He still has many fond memories from NYSC such as rock climbing and spelunking for the first (and only!) times. He remembers receiving the coveted "Golden Zelda" award for having the most delegates attend his talk (though there were a number of talks going on simultaneously, Frank remembers more than half of the 100 delegates squeezed into a space for at most twenty!) Remarkably, many of the things he did as a 1982 delegate, he was still doing years later. Then, he was interested in number theory and 9 years later he received his PhD in pure math from MIT with a specialization in number theory. Now, twenty years later, he is working with students on projects in number theory. For example, then, he worked for a fledgling textbook publishing company as its only employee; twenty years later he was running the company of 250 employees. In 2003, he left his position as Chairman of the company to pursue his lifelong passion and desire to teach. Now, he teaches math at the University of Oklahoma and the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. The talk that he plans to deliver at the NYSC camp "Beauty and Mathematics - A Mathematician's Search for Order and Pattern from Disorder and Chaos" is actually based upon the talk he gave in 1982.