1926 15 years old entered the Department of Mathematics of Nankai University, and 1930 was admitted to Tsinghua University as a graduate student. /kloc-went abroad for further study in 0/934, and studied geometry under the famous geometrician Brahikai in Hamburg, Germany. 1936 came to Paris to study differential geometry with Tang Jia. /kloc-in the summer of 0/937, he accepted the recruitment letter from Professor Tsinghua University to teach differential geometry. At that time, Yang Zhenning and Zhong Kailai became his students. Later, he taught at Princeton University, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley.
Chen Shengshen founded the former Institute of Mathematics of Academia Sinica, the National Institute of Mathematics of the United States, Nankai Institute of Mathematics and other research institutions. 196 1 was elected as an academician by the American Academy of Sciences, and 1975 was awarded the National Science Medal by the President of the United States. He is also a foreign member of the Royal Society, a foreign academician of the Academy of Lindsay in Italy, a foreign academician of the National Academies of France, Italy and Russia, a communication academician of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and the founder of the Third World Academy of Sciences. 198 1 After retirement, he served as the first director of the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences for three years, and then served as honorary director.
1983 was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Mathematical Society. 1May, 984, won the Wolff Prize, the highest prize in mathematics in the world. 1994 was elected as the first batch of foreign academicians of China Academy of Sciences.
Mr. Chen Shengshen is a great geometer in the 20th century and the pride of Chinese all over the world. He initiated and led the research in the fields of global differential geometry, fiber bundle differential geometry and "Bobby Chen's incarnation class", enjoying the reputation of "the father of differential geometry" internationally.
In his later years, he loved his hometown, and returned to the Institute of Mathematics of Nankai University in Tianjin every year to take charge of his work and cultivate new people, just to realize his dream: to make China a great mathematical country in the 2 1 century.
Jingrun Chen
(2004-02-06)
Fuzhou, Fujian, 1953 graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Xiamen University and is a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences. Mainly engaged in the research of analytic number theory, and achieved international leading results in the research of Goldbach conjecture. In 1950s, important improvements were made to the lattice points of Gauss circle, the lattice points of ball, Tali problem and Waring problem. Since the 1960s, the screening method and its related important problems have been deeply studied, and the proposition "1+2" was proved in May of 1966, which greatly promoted the proof of Goldbach's conjecture that people have not solved for more than 200 years. This result is known as "Chen Theorem" internationally. Later, it was improved and the minimum prime number was pushed from 80 to 16, which received rave reviews.
Chen Jingrun is one of the world famous analytic number theorists. In the 1950s, he made important improvements on the existing results of Gauss circle lattice point problem, sphere lattice point problem, Tali problem and Waring problem. After 1960s, he made extensive and in-depth research on screening methods and related important issues.
1966, Chen Jingrun, who lives in a 6-square-meter hut, borrowed a dim kerosene lamp, leaned against the bed board and used a pen to consume several sacks of draft paper. He actually conquered (1+2) in the world-famous mathematical puzzle "Goldbach conjecture", creating a distance from taking off the crown jewel of number theory (1+66). He proved that "every big even number is the sum of the products of a prime number and no more than two prime numbers", which made him a world leader in Goldbach's conjecture research. This result is called "Chen Theorem" internationally and is widely quoted. This work also enabled him, Wang Yuan and Pan Chengdong to win the first prize of China Natural Science Award with 1978 * *. His achievements in studying Goldbach conjecture and other number theory problems are still far ahead in the world. A world-class master of mathematics and American scholar A Will (A? Weil) once praised him like this: "Every job in Chen Jingrun is like walking on the top of the Himalayas."
1978 and 1982, Chen Jingrun gave a 45-minute lecture at the invitation of the International Congress of Mathematicians. This is the pride and pride of China people. His achievements and honors have set up an immortal banner for thousands of intellectuals in Qian Qian, Qian Qian, reflecting the three mountains and five mountains and calling on hundreds of millions of young people to forge ahead.
Chen Jingrun has published more than 70 academic papers.
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Brief introduction to China
Hua,19101012, a native of Jintan, Jiangsu. His father makes a living by running a grocery store. When he was young, he liked to use his brain. Because he is too absorbed in thinking, he is often nicknamed "Luo nerd" by his peers. After he entered Jintan junior high school, his mathematical talent was discovered by teacher Wang Weike and cultivated as much as possible. After graduating from junior high school, Hua went to Shanghai China Vocational School, but dropped out of school because he couldn't afford the tuition, so he only had a junior high school diploma for life.
After that, I started tenacious self-study and reached 10 hours every day. It took him five years to finish all the math courses in high school and junior college. 1928, he was unfortunately infected with typhoid fever, and he survived under the care of his new wife, but his left leg was disabled. At the age of 20, he caused a sensation in the field of mathematics with a paper and was invited to work by Tsinghua University.
From 193 1, Hua worked and studied in Tsinghua University, and completed all the courses in the Department of Mathematics in one and a half years. He taught himself English, French and German. After publishing three papers in foreign magazines, he was appointed as a teaching assistant. 1In the summer of 936, Hua was sent to Cambridge University in England for further study, and published more than ten papers in two years, which was appreciated by the international mathematics community. From 65438 to 0938, Hua returned from a visit to Britain and served as Professor The National SouthWest Associated University. In a small attic like a cowshed on the outskirts of Kunming, he struggled to write the famous book "The Theory of Prime Number of Stacking Bases". 1March, 946, invited to visit the Soviet Union. After returning home, despite the restrictions of the reactionary authorities, he gave the youth a report on his "visit to the Soviet Union in March" in Kunming. 1946 In September, Hua went to the United States to give lectures at the invitation of Princeton University, and was hired as a tenured professor by the University of Illinois from 1948. Soon, my wife came to America with her three sons to reunite with her.
1949, Hua resolutely gave up her comfortable life and returned to the motherland with her family. 1March, 950, went to Beijing, and later served as the head of the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University and the director of the Institute of Mathematics of Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the 1950s, under the academic atmosphere of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend, he wrote a lot, and also discovered and trained mathematics talents such as Wang Yuan and Chen Jingrun. 1956, he set out to build the Institute of Computational Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences. 65438-0958: Vice President of China University of Science and Technology and Head of the Department of Mathematics. From 1960, China began to popularize the overall planning method and optimization method in industrial and agricultural production, covering 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, creating huge material wealth and economic benefits. 1978 served as vice president of China Academy of Sciences in March, and joined the Party the following year.
In his later years, despite his advanced age and lack of physical strength, Hua was still fighting in the front line of construction. He was also invited to give lectures in Europe, America and Hong Kong for many times, and was awarded honorary doctorates by Nancy University in France, the University of Illinois in the United States and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was also elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences by a unanimous vote of 1984. 1June 2, 985, died of a heart attack while giving an academic report in Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 74.