Welcome to Ruodu Wang's Homepage
Miscellaneous
Personal
Born in Beijing, citizen of China, permanent resident of Canada
I was a competitive Starcraft Player in China.
National Third-place of card game Sanguosha in China, 2009.
One of my Starcraft II game videos has more than 700,000 views (by 2011) on YouTube.
(the most viewed Starcraft II game video by the end of 2011.)
My Erdös number is 3: Ruodu Wang <- Ričardas Zitikis <- Endre Csáki <- Paul Erdös
Travel
Traveller's map (updated: August 2023)
Countries and territories (updated: September 2023)
| East Asia | China, South Korea, Russia, North Korea, Mongolia |
| West Asia | Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, UAE, Qatar |
| Southeast Asia | Singapore |
| North America | Canada, USA, Mexico |
| Central America | Cayman Islands, Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Panama |
| South America | Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia |
| Africa | Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Morocco, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana |
| North Europe | Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia |
| West Europe | Germany, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, UK, Austria, Liechtenstein |
| East Europe | Czech, Poland, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia |
| South Europe | Italy, Spain, Greece, Vatican City, Portugal |
| Oceania | Australia |
| Antarctica | Antarctica |
Statistics (updated: September 2023)
Number of countries visited: 60
Number of countries where academic lectures were given: 20
Approximate time spent in each of the seven continents:
Random Stuff
PHD comics. Feel better about your own PhD life by looking at others'.
How to finish a Ph.D. by Matthias Schonlau at the University of Waterloo.
The grammar according to West, tips for mathematical writing in English, by Douglas West at the University of Illinois.
Ruodu Wang's suggestions for writing mathematics. Compared to the tips of West, this article is written with young scholars in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research and Finance in mind.