Hua luogeng biography

Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the.
Hau Loo-Keng was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory.
Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China.

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Hua Luogeng

Chinese mathematician and politician (1910–1985)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Hua.

Hua Luogeng or Hua Loo-Keng^[1] (Chinese: 华罗庚; Wade–Giles: Hua Lo-keng; 12 November 1910 – 12 June 1985) was a Chinese mathematician and politician famous for his important contributions to number theory and for his role as the leader of mathematics research and education in the People's Republic of China. He was largely responsible for identifying and nurturing the renowned mathematician Chen Jingrun who proved Chen's theorem, the best known result on the Goldbach conjecture. In addition, Hua's later work on mathematical optimization and operations research made an enormous impact on China's economy. He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1982.^[2] He was elected a member of the standing Committee of the first to sixth National people's Congress, Vice-chairman of the sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (April 1985) and vice-chairman of the China Democra

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Biography

Hua Loo-Keng or Hua Luogeng was one of the leading mathematicians of his time and one of the two most eminent Chinese mathematicians of his generation, S S Chern being the other. He spent most of his working life in China during some of that country's most turbulent political upheavals. If many Chinese mathematicians nowadays are making distinguished contributions at the frontiers of science and if mathematics in China enjoys high popularity in public esteem, that is due in large measure to the leadership Hua gave his country, as scholar and teacher, for 50 years.

Hua was born in 1910 in Jintan in the southern Jiangsu Province of China. Jintan is now a flourishing town, with a high school named after Hua and a memorial building celebrating his achievements; but in 1910 it was little more than a village where Hua's father managed a general store with mixed success. The family was poor throughout Hua's formative years; in addition, he was a frail child afflicted by a succession of illnesses, culminating in typhoid fever that caused paralysis of his left leg; thi

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Hua Luogeng (1910 – 1985)

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Hua Luogeng (1910–1985) was a famous modern Chinese mathematician. Born to a poor family in Jintan (Jiangsu Province) on 12 November 1910, he had to drop out of the China Vocational School of Shanghai in 1925, barely one year after his middle-school graduation. His thirst for knowledge, however, urged him to maintain his studies independently. He worked for his family during the day and studied modern mathematics at night by the dim light of an oil lamp, even during sultry summers and cold winters. The hard work finally paid off in 1930, when he published a paper on the solution to certain algebraic equations in the Chinese journal Science. The paper caught the attention of Xiong Qinglai, Dean of the Mathematics Department of Tsinghua University. Under Xiong’s invitation, Hua began to work at the university—first as a librarian, then a teaching assistant, and finally a lecturer. In 1934, he worked as a researcher in the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture. In 1936, Hua went on to study math