Su Buqing

Su Buqing, Chinese苏步青( born September 23, 1902 in Pingyang, Zhejiang Province, † March 17, 2003 in Shanghai ) was a Chinese mathematician. Because of his pioneering work he was called the " first geometer in the Orient ".

After graduating from a secondary school, he traveled to Japan to be there to acquire further knowledge. He studied first at the industrial high school in Tokyo and then at Northeastern Imperial University. Here he graduated in 1927 and attain four years later the doctorate.

While studying Buqing dealt with general curved surfaces and found four conical surfaces. Mathematician called his discovery as " Sus conical surfaces ".

After graduation, he refused to remain in Japan and went resolutely back to the Middle Kingdom. At Zhejiang University, he took up a teaching position. In 1952 he was dean of the Fudan University, which 31 years later he was appointed honorary president. For sixty years he gave students mathematical knowledge.

In recent years, Buqings research activity focused mainly on affine and projective differential geometry. After 1950, the focus was on the differential geometry of generalized spaces, conjugated networks and computer-aided geometric constructions. He gave more than ten monographs out, including " Affine differential geometry ".

His work has paid tribute to, inter alia, with the price of national science conference and the second prize for national scientific and technological progress. He was from 1955 a member of the mathematics and physics department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and of the Standing Committee of the Academy, still honorary president of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, Vice- Chairman of the seventh and eighth CPPCC and the Central Committee of the China Democratic League. He also sat in the standing committee of the fifth and sixth National People's Congress.

In his honor, will give the Chinese Ministry of Education from 2007 all four years, the Su Buqing Prize to distinguished mathematicians.

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