Sun Guangyuan

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Sun Guangyuan (traditional Chinese: 孫光遠; simplified Chinese: 孙光远; pinyin: Sūn Guāngyuǎn; Wade-Giles: Sun Kuangyüan, 19001979), also known as Sun Tang (孫鎕), was a modern Chinese mathematician. He studied projective geometry under E. P. Lane at the University of Chicago and later became a professor in Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China. Reportedly he was the first Chinese mathematician to publish a research paper from China in any mathematical journal.

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