Research
Yang's earliest research focused on the finite projective geometry.
Yang worked mainly in differential topology (especially group actions on manifolds) and published numerous papers in this field, many in collaboration with Deane Montgomery.
His best known work was on the Blaschke conjecture. His theorem, combined with the results of others, established the conjecture for spheres.
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