Hua Luogeng
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Hua Luogeng or Loo-keng 華羅庚 (November 12, 1910 - June 12, 1985) was a mathematician from China. He was the founder and pioneer of many fields in mathematics research. He wrote more than 200 pieces of thesis and monographs, many of which have become classic documents. Since his sudden death while giving a lecture in Japan, many mathematics secondary education programs have been named after him. In the early 1930's, his book on cumulative prime number theory has been influential to many subsequent number theorists in China, including renowned Chen Jingrun who obtained the best result so far in the binary Goldbach conjecture.
Hua was born in a small business family. He had a capable middle school math teacher who recognized his potential early, and encouraged him to read advanced texts. Hua was partially paralyzed in his late teenage, due to mistreatment in a prolonged illness during which he stayed in bed for half a year. His first significant result regarded a paper written by Dr. Su JiaJu who claimed to have a closed form radical solution of the quintics. Hua studied Abel's original paper on the unsolvability of quintics and found a miscalculation in a 13x13 matrix in Su's paper. Henceforth Hua published his refutal in an authoritative mathematics journal in China, which was discovered by some professors in Qinghua University, especially Dr. Xiong Qinglai.
[edit] External links
- Hua Luogeng at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Hua Luogeng". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Biographical memoir – by Heini Halberstam
