At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was the famous mathematician Hua Luogeng, who laid the foundation of mathematics education in New China. Later, there was Chen Jingrun, who proved the "Goldbach Conjecture" to the penultimate step, which is quite great!

Internationally renowned mathematics master and winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Chen Shengshen

Entered the Graduate School of Tsinghua University in 1931 and received a master's degree in 1934. In 1934, he went to Hamburg University to study under Blaschke. In 1937, he returned to China and served as a professor at Southwest Associated University. From 1943 to 1945, he was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He went to the United States in early 1949 and became a professor at the University of Chicago. In 1960, he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He retired in 1979 and became an honorary professor, and continued to teach until 1984. From 1981 to 1984, he served as director of the new Berkeley Institute of Mathematics, and later as honorary director. The main field of work of Chen Shengshen is differential geometry and its related branches. He has also made pioneering contributions in many fields such as integral geometry, projective differential geometry, minimal submanifolds, net geometry, total curvature and various immersion theories, external differential forms and partial differential equations. Chen Sheng himself has many honors, including academician of Academia Sinica (1948). Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1961) and National Medal of Science (1975), foreign member of the Royal Society of London (1985), foreign academician of the French Academy of Sciences (1989), foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc. Won the Wolf Award in 1983/1984 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Steele Award of the American Scientific Association in 1983.

2． A great mathematician with an international reputation and an important founder of the development of mathematics in New China, Hua Luogeng

Hua Luogeng is a mathematician with a legendary life experience. He dropped out of school in his early years. In 1930, he published a theory in "Science" His article on the solution of algebraic equations attracted Xiong Qinglai's attention, and he was invited to study and work at Tsinghua University. Under the guidance of Yang Wuzhi, he began research on number theory. In 1936, he went to work at the University of Cambridge in England as a visiting scholar. He returned to China in 1938 and was employed as a professor at Southwest Associated University. In 1946, he was invited as a researcher by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA, and taught at Princeton University. Since 1948, he has been a professor at the University of Illinois. Returning to China in 1950, he successively served as professor at Tsinghua University, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the Department of Mathematical and Physical Chemistry and deputy director of the department, director and vice president of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Science and Technology of China, director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and deputy director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dean, presidium member and other positions. He has also served as the chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society for many terms. In addition, Hua Luogeng was also a member of the Standing Committee of the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth National People's Congress and Vice Chairman of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Hua Luogeng is an internationally renowned mathematician. His name is listed with a handful of classic mathematicians in famous museums such as the Smithsonian Museum and the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. He was elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, and an academician of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Federal Germany. He was also awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Nancy in France, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Illinois in the United States. Hua Luogeng has made outstanding contributions in a wide range of mathematical fields such as analytic number theory, matrix geometry, canonical groups, automorphic function theory, function theory of multiple complex variables, partial differential equations, and high-dimensional numerical integration. Due to Hua Luogeng's significant contributions, there are many theorems, lemmas, inequalities, operators and methods named after him. He has published nearly 300 monographs and academic papers. Hua Luogeng also advocated applied mathematics and computer development based on China's actual conditions and international trends. He practiced it and personally went to 27 provinces and cities to popularize and apply mathematical methods for 20 years, making significant contributions to economic construction.

3． The master of logic and mathematics second only to G?del, Wang Hao

Graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Southwest Associated University in 1943. Graduated from the Philosophy Department of Tsinghua University Graduate School in 1945. Received a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University in the United States in 1948. From 1950 to 1951, he engaged in research work at the Institute of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. From 1951 to 1953, he served as an assistant professor at Harvard University. From 1954 to 1961, he gave the second set of Locke lectures at the University of Oxford, England, and served as a senior professor of logic and mathematical philosophy. From 1961 to 1967, he was a professor at Harvard University.

After 1967, he became a professor at Rockefeller University in the United States and presided over the logic research laboratory. In 1985, he was appointed as an honorary professor of Peking University in China. In 1986, he was appointed as an honorary professor at Tsinghua University in China. In the 1950s, he was first elected as an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and later as a foreign academician of the British Academy of Sciences. He is a Chinese-American mathematician, logician, computer scientist, and philosopher.

4. Famous mathematician and mechanics, academician of the American Academy of Sciences, Lin Jiaqiao

Graduated from the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University in 1937. Obtained a master's degree from the University of Toronto in Canada in 1941. Received a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in 1944. Since 1953, he has served as professor of mathematics, college professor, and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. Professor Lin Jiaqiao has won the Timoshenko Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Award of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Fluid Dynamics Award of the American Physical Society. He is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences (1951), the National Academy of Sciences (1962), and the Academia Sinica in Taiwan (1960). Since the 1940s, Professor Lin Jiaqiao's work on flow stability and turbulence theory of fluid mechanics has led to an entire generation of research and exploration in this field. Starting in the 1960s, he entered the field of astrophysics research and pioneered the density wave theory of the spiral structure of galaxies, which was internationally recognized. On June 8, 1994, he was elected as the first batch of foreign scholars of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

5. Zeng Yuanrong, a research pioneer in the field of functional analysis in my country, entered the preparatory department of Tsinghua School (the predecessor of Tsinghua University) in the United States in 1919 and studied there until July 1927. Due to his excellent academic performance, he studied and researched mathematics at the University of Chicago, Princeton University and Yale University in the United States, and obtained his doctorate in 1933. From August 1934 to July 1942, he taught at Tsinghua University (in 1938, he formed the Southwest Associated University in Kunming with Peking University and Nankai University). In February 1950, he was invited by Professor Sun Guangyuan, chairman of the Department of Mathematics of National Nanjing University, to teach at Nanjing University until his retirement. He established the earliest computational mathematics major in China at Nanjing University. He has been engaged in functional analysis research for a long time and is one of the pioneers in this field in my country. He has made outstanding achievements in research fields such as generalized inverse.

6. The earliest scholar in my country to advocate applied mathematics and computational mathematics was Zhao Fangxiong

In 1922, he was admitted to Tsinghua School in Beijing. At that time, Tsinghua School was a publicly funded preparatory school for studying in the United States. Competition was fierce. Only three students were admitted in Jiangsu, and he ranked first among many candidates. After graduation, he went to study in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1930, was admitted as a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University, and received a master's degree in 1931. In 1933, he was hired back to China to teach in the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. In 1935, he was hired as a professor. He has been teaching at Tsinghua University since then and participated in the establishment of the first computational mathematics major in China. Zhao Fangxiong served as the vice president of Tsinghua University twice, in 1962 and 1978. From 1980 to 1984, he concurrently served as the director of the newly established Department of Applied Mathematics, and was appointed as a member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He has served as a director and honorary director of the Chinese Mathematical Society. From 1978 to 1989, he served as the first and second chairman of the Society for Computational Mathematics, the third honorary chairman, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Mathematics. Mathematician, mathematics educator. One of the earliest scholars in my country to advocate and engage in the teaching and research of applied mathematics and computational mathematics. Compiled my country's first engineering textbook "Advanced Calculus". He has made great achievements in equation root finding and applied mathematics research.

7. Famous mathematician and mathematics educator, Wu Daren

In 1930, he and Chen Shengshen graduated from Nankai University with the highest honors and were admitted to Tsinghua University as a graduate student. In the summer of 1933, with the encouragement of Jiang Lifu, Wu Daren participated in He was admitted to study in the UK through the first Sino-British Geng Fund Publicly Funded Study Abroad Examination. He originally wanted to study at the University of Cambridge, but missed the opportunity to enroll at the school due to the time he arrived in London. Instead, he entered the University College of the University of London and registered as a doctoral candidate. In early September 1937, Wu Daren went to Wuhan University to teach, and then moved to Leshan, Sichuan with Wuhan University. Later, he held leadership and teaching positions at Nankai University for a long time, and wrote and translated various mathematics textbooks and classics. It has made positive contributions to my country’s higher education. Research areas include integral geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, differential geometry and their applications (gear theory).

In 1981, he served as a member of the first mathematics group of the National Academic Degree Committee, an editorial board member of the "Mathematics Volume of the Encyclopedia of China" and deputy editor-in-chief of the geometric topology discipline, and a member of the first and second members of the National Natural Science Terminology Approval Committee.

8． Famous mathematician and professor at Peking University, Zhuang Qitai

He was admitted to Tsinghua School in 1927 and graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University in 1932. In 1934, Professor Xiong Qinglai accepted Zhuang Qitai as his graduate student. In 1936, he Graduated from the School of Science. In 1938, he received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Paris, France. He once served as a professor at Yunnan University. After the restructuring of departments in 1952, Zhuang Qitai stayed at Peking University. Since then, in addition to continuing to teach the complex function course, he has also successively taught professional courses such as conformal transformation, quasi-conformal transformation, integral functions and meromorphic functions. Member of Jiusan Society. He has been engaged in research on function theory for a long time and has made important achievements in the theory of value distribution of integral functions and meromorphic functions. Author of "Singular Directions of Meromorphic Functions" and co-editor of "AnalyticFunctionsOfOneCom·plexVariable" (published in the United States)

9. Famous mathematician, mathematics educator, and president of Sichuan University, Ke Zhao

In 1931, he entered the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. In 1933, Ke Zhao graduated with honors. In 1935, he was admitted to the Sino-British Geng Scholarship as a publicly funded international student and went to the University of Manchester in the UK for further studies. Under the guidance of his tutor L. J. Under the guidance of Mordell, he studied quadratic forms and achieved excellent results on the problem of expressing quadratic forms as sums of squares of linear forms. After returning to China, he taught at Chongqing University and Sichuan University. In 1953, he was transferred back to Sichuan University and has taught there ever since. During these more than 40 years, he devoted himself to teaching and scientific research with full enthusiasm, trained many outstanding mathematical talents for the country, and achieved fruitful results in scientific research. At the same time, he also served as the provost, vice president, president, and director of the Institute of Mathematics of Sichuan University. As an academic leader and school leader, he effectively focused on several important aspects of work: striving to improve To improve teaching quality, we actively carry out basic theoretical research, develop applied mathematics, and cultivate a group of high-level talents. His research fields include number theory, combinatorics and algebra. He has achieved many outstanding results in the fields of quadratic and indefinite equations. In 1955, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department).

10． Academician of Academia Sinica and one of the first members of the academic department, Xu Baoluan

Entered the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University in 1929 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1933. In 1936, Xu Baoluan was admitted to study in the UK and was sent to University College London, where he worked in statistics Department of study mathematical statistics, pursuing a doctoral degree. He went to Kunming in 1940 and taught at Southwest Associated University. In 1948 he was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica. Shortly after returning to China, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He has been working despite being ill for a long time, and has continued teaching and research. He has published more than 10 papers in matrix theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. In 1955, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He pioneered the teaching and research of probability theory and mathematical statistics in China. He has made outstanding achievements in Neiman-Pearson theory, parameter estimation theory, multivariate analysis, limit theory, etc., and is one of the pioneers of multivariate statistical analysis. In 1955, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department).

11. Duan Xuefu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former director of the Department of Mathematics at Peking University

In 1932, he was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University (then known as the "Department of Mathematics"). In the summer of 1936, Duan Xuefu received his Bachelor of Science degree and stayed at the school as a teaching assistant after graduation. In August 1941, he entered the Department of Mathematics of Princeton University in the United States to pursue a doctoral degree. In 1946, he returned to China and became a professor at Tsinghua University. After the departmental reorganization in 1952, he served as the chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Peking University for nearly 40 years. He has been engaged in the research of algebra for a long time. He has made outstanding achievements in the modular representation theory of finite groups, especially index blocks and their application in the study of the construction of finite simple groups and finite complex linear groups. Guide students to use representation theory and finite simple group classification theorem to completely solve the famous Brauer's 39th and 40th problems. In the research of algebraic Lie groups, he cooperated with foreign scholars to complete early foundational results. A series of research results have been achieved in finite P groups. He has done a lot of work in applying mathematics to national defense scientific research and national defense construction. In 1955, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department).

12. Jiang Zehan, the founder of topology in my country

graduated from Nankai University. In 1927, he took the examination for Tsinghua University’s junior college students studying in the United States and passed the only quota to study mathematics that year. He later studied abroad in the Department of Mathematics at Harvard University in the United States. Received doctorate in 1930. In 1930, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University in the United States. Since 1931, he has been a professor of the Department of Mathematics of Peking University for a long time, and served as the director of the Department of Mathematics of Peking University. He also served as the acting dean of the School of Science. Mathematician, mathematics educator. In his early years, he served as the dean of the Department of Mathematics at Peking University for a long time and established an excellent teaching style for the department. Committed to topology, especially the study of fixed point theory, he is one of the pioneers of topology research in my country. In 1955, he was elected as a member of the Department of Mathematics and Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences was established in November 1949. The "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication in March 1951 (renamed "Journal of Mathematics" in 1952), and the "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication in October 1951 (renamed "Chinese Mathematics Bulletin" in 1953). In August 1951, the Chinese Mathematical Society held its first national congress after the founding of the People's Republic of China to discuss the development direction of mathematics and the reform of mathematics teaching in various schools.

Mathematical research has made great progress after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the early 1950s, Hua Luogeng's "Theory of Stacked Prime Numbers" (1953), Su Buqing's "Introduction to Projective Curves" (1954), Chen Jiangong's "Sum of Rectangular Function Series" (1954) and Li Yan's "On the History of Calculation" were published. (5th series, 1954-1955) and other monographs. By 1966, *** published about 20,000 various mathematical papers. In addition to continuing to achieve new results in subjects such as number theory, algebra, geometry, topology, function theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics, and history of mathematics, we have also made breakthroughs in branches such as differential equations, computing technology, operations research, mathematical logic, and mathematical foundations. , many works have reached the world's advanced level, and a large number of outstanding mathematicians have been cultivated and grown.

In the late 1960s, China's mathematics research basically stopped. Education was paralyzed, personnel were lost, and external exchanges were interrupted. Later, the situation changed slightly after various efforts. In 1970, "Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication and founded "Practice and Understanding of Mathematics". In 1973, Chen Jingrun published the paper "A large even number is expressed as the sum of a prime number and the product of no more than two prime numbers" in "Science China" and made outstanding achievements in the study of Goldbach's conjecture. In addition, Chinese mathematicians have also made certain innovations in function theory, Markov processes, probability applications, operations research, and optimization methods.

The Third Congress of the Chinese Mathematical Society was held in November 1978, marking the recovery of Chinese mathematics. The National Mathematics Competition was resumed in 1978, and China began to participate in the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1985. In 1981, Chen Jingrun and other mathematicians won the National Natural Science Award. In 1983, the country awarded doctoral degrees to the first batch of 18 young and middle-aged scholars, 2/3 of whom were mathematicians. In 1986, China sent representatives to the International Congress of Mathematicians for the first time and joined the International Mathematical Union. Wu Wenjun was invited to give a speech on A 45-minute lecture on the history of ancient Chinese mathematics. In the past decade or so, mathematical research has yielded fruitful results. The number of published papers and monographs has doubled and their quality has continued to improve. At the 1985 annual meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Mathematical Society, the long-term goals for the development of mathematics in China were determined. The representatives were determined to work tirelessly to make China a new mathematical power in the world as soon as possible. The Chinese Academy of Sciences was established in November 1949. The "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication in March 1951 (renamed "Journal of Mathematics" in 1952), and the "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication in October 1951 (renamed "Chinese Mathematics Bulletin" in 1953). In August 1951, the Chinese Mathematical Society held its first national congress after the founding of the People's Republic of China to discuss the development direction of mathematics and the reform of mathematics teaching in various schools.

Mathematical research has made great progress after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the early 1950s, Hua Luogeng's "Theory of Stacked Prime Numbers" (1953), Su Buqing's "Introduction to Projective Curves" (1954), Chen Jiangong's "Sum of Rectangular Function Series" (1954) and Li Yan's "On the History of Calculation" were published. (5th series, 1954-1955) and other monographs. By 1966, *** published about 20,000 various mathematical papers.

In addition to continuing to achieve new results in subjects such as number theory, algebra, geometry, topology, function theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics, and history of mathematics, we have also made breakthroughs in branches such as differential equations, computing technology, operations research, mathematical logic, and mathematical foundations. , many works have reached the world's advanced level, and a large number of outstanding mathematicians have been cultivated and grown.

In the late 1960s, China's mathematics research basically stopped. Education was paralyzed, personnel were lost, and external exchanges were interrupted. Later, the situation changed slightly after various efforts. In 1970, "Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication and founded "Practice and Understanding of Mathematics". In 1973, Chen Jingrun published the paper "A large even number is expressed as the sum of a prime number and the product of no more than two prime numbers" in "Science China" and made outstanding achievements in the study of Goldbach's conjecture. In addition, Chinese mathematicians have also made certain innovations in function theory, Markov processes, probability applications, operations research, and optimization methods.

The Third Congress of the Chinese Mathematical Society was held in November 1978, marking the recovery of Chinese mathematics. The National Mathematics Competition was resumed in 1978, and China began to participate in the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1985. In 1981, Chen Jingrun and other mathematicians won the National Natural Science Award. In 1983, the country awarded doctoral degrees to the first batch of 18 young and middle-aged scholars, 2/3 of whom were mathematicians. In 1986, China sent representatives to the International Congress of Mathematicians for the first time and joined the International Mathematical Union. Wu Wenjun was invited to give a speech on A 45-minute lecture on the history of ancient Chinese mathematics. In the past decade or so, mathematical research has yielded fruitful results. The number of published papers and monographs has doubled and their quality has continued to improve. At the 1985 annual meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Mathematical Society, the long-term goals for the development of mathematics in China were determined. The delegates were determined to work tirelessly to make China a new mathematical power in the world as soon as possible. The Chinese Academy of Sciences was established in November 1949. The "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication in March 1951 (renamed "Journal of Mathematics" in 1952), and the "Chinese Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication in October 1951 (renamed "Chinese Mathematics Bulletin" in 1953). In August 1951, the Chinese Mathematical Society held its first national congress after the founding of the People's Republic of China to discuss the development direction of mathematics and the reform of mathematics teaching in various schools.

Mathematical research has made great progress after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the early 1950s, Hua Luogeng's "Theory of Stacked Prime Numbers" (1953), Su Buqing's "Introduction to Projective Curves" (1954), Chen Jiangong's "Sum of Rectangular Function Series" (1954) and Li Yan's "On the History of Calculation" were published. (5th series, 1954-1955) and other monographs. By 1966, *** published about 20,000 various mathematical papers. In addition to continuing to achieve new results in subjects such as number theory, algebra, geometry, topology, function theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics, and history of mathematics, we have also made breakthroughs in branches such as differential equations, computing technology, operations research, mathematical logic, and mathematical foundations. , many works have reached the world's advanced level, and a large number of outstanding mathematicians have been cultivated and grown.

In the late 1960s, China's mathematics research basically stopped. Education was paralyzed, personnel were lost, and external exchanges were interrupted. Later, the situation changed slightly after various efforts. In 1970, "Journal of Mathematics" resumed publication and founded "Practice and Understanding of Mathematics". In 1973, Chen Jingrun published the paper "A large even number is expressed as the sum of a prime number and the product of no more than two prime numbers" in "Science China" and made outstanding achievements in the study of Goldbach's conjecture. In addition, Chinese mathematicians have also made certain innovations in function theory, Markov processes, probability applications, operations research, and optimization methods.

The Third Congress of the Chinese Mathematical Society was held in November 1978, marking the recovery of Chinese mathematics. The National Mathematics Competition was resumed in 1978, and China began to participate in the International Mathematics Olympiad in 1985. In 1981, Chen Jingrun and other mathematicians won the National Natural Science Award. In 1983, the country awarded doctoral degrees to the first batch of 18 young and middle-aged scholars, 2/3 of whom were mathematicians. In 1986, China sent representatives to the International Congress of Mathematicians for the first time and joined the International Mathematical Union. Wu Wenjun was invited to give a speech on A 45-minute lecture on the history of ancient Chinese mathematics. In the past decade or so, mathematical research has yielded fruitful results. The number of published papers and monographs has doubled and their quality has continued to improve. At the 1985 annual meeting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Mathematical Society, the long-term goals for the development of mathematics in China were determined. The delegates are determined to work tirelessly to make China a new mathematical power in the world as soon as possible