Sze-Tsen Hu (Chinese: 胡世楨; pinyin: Hú Shìzhēn; Wade–Giles: Hu Shih-chen; 9 October 1914 – 6 May 1999),[1] also known as Steve Hu, was a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in homotopy theory.
from the National Central University in Nanking, China in 1938 and his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, England in 1947 with thesis advisor Max Newman.
[2] Hu held a visiting lectureship at Tulane University for 1949–1950 and was a visiting scholar from 1950 to 1952 at the Institute for Advanced Study.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1950 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was elected in 1966 to the Academica Sinica (Taiwan).