The year of Watson's death (19 10- 1985): a modern mathematician in China. 191010 65438 was born in Jintan, Jiangsu province, and 1985 12 died in Tokyo, Japan. I liked math since I was a child, but because my family was poor, I had to drop out of school and become a shop assistant after finishing junior high school. /kloc-suffered from typhoid fever at the age of 0/8, resulting in disability of his right leg. He has made contributions in many fields of mathematics. Since 1960s, he has applied mathematical methods to practice, screened out optimization methods and overall planning methods aiming at improving work efficiency, and achieved remarkable economic benefits.

Classic famous saying

1, intelligence lies in diligence, and genius lies in accumulation. -Hua (China)

2. People without ambition lack great motivation in life, so they can't be expected to have outstanding achievements. -Hua (China)

3. The same is true of "difficulty". Facing the cliffs, you can't see a crack in a hundred years, but with an axe, you can advance inch by inch, you must advance inch by inch, and you will continue to accumulate. Leaps will come, and breakthroughs will follow. -Hua (China)

There is no royal road to science, and there are countless reefs and shoals in the long river of truth. Only herb gatherers who are not afraid of climbing, only herb gatherers who are not afraid of stormy waves, can climb the peak to collect fairy grass and go deep into the water to find pearls. -Hua (China)

5. Diligence is a good training, and one point of hard work is one point. -Hua (China)

6. In the long March of seeking truth, only by studying, constantly studying, diligently studying and creatively studying can we climb the mountain and cross the ridge. -Hua (China)

7. A strong man was dying in the cold wind, but despite some scars, he fought against the Millennium demon and fought for the new style of a hundred generations. Give yourself generously. -Hua (China)

Comrade Hua is a contemporary self-taught master of science and a famous mathematician at home and abroad. He is the founder and pioneer of China's research on analytic number theory, canonical group, matrix geometry, automorphic function theory and multiple complex variable function theory.

19101012 was born in a small businessman's family in Jintan county, Jiangsu province, with a height of1.65m. My father Hua Ruidong runs a small grocery store, and my mother is a virtuous housewife. /kloc-graduated from renmao primary school in the county town at the age of 0/2 and entered Jintan county junior high school. 1925 after graduating from junior high school, he was unable to enter senior high school because of his poor family, so he had to study accounting in the Chinese vocational school founded by Huang Yanpei in Shanghai. In less than a year, due to the high cost of living, I was forced to drop out of school and go back to Jintan to help my father manage the grocery store.

In the monotonous life of standing at the counter, he began to teach himself mathematics. /kloc-married Wu Xiaozhi in the autumn of 0/927. From 65438 to 0929, Hua was employed as a clerk in Jintan Middle School and began to publish papers in Shanghai Science and other magazines. 1929 In the winter, he suffered from severe typhoid fever. After nearly half a year's treatment, he recovered, but his left leg joint was seriously damaged, leaving him with a lifelong disability. He had to walk on crutches.

In fact, when Hua was in junior high school, his homework was not good once, and sometimes he failed in math. Hua's math teacher, a famous educator and translator in China (1900 was born in Jintan), was teaching in Jintan Middle School at that time. He found Hua playful, but quick-thinking, and his math exercises were often changed, and his method of solving problems was very unique and original. On one occasion, the teacher of Jintan Middle School lamented that there were many "poor students" and no "talents" in the school. Wang Weike said, "Not necessarily. In my opinion, China is one! " "Hua Luogeng?" A teacher smiled and said, "Look at him, this word is like a crab crawling. Can he become a' talent'? " Wang Weike said with some excitement, "Of course, he has little hope of becoming a great calligrapher, but how can you see his talent in mathematics from between his lines?" You know, gold is buried in sand and looks no different from sand. What we need most as teachers' eyes is the ability to find gold in the sand, otherwise we will bury talents! "

1in the spring of 930, his paper "Why can't the solution of Su Jiaju's algebraic quintic equation be established" was published in Shanghai Science Journal. After seeing it, Professor Xiong Qinglai, then head of the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University, inquired about it in many ways and recommended him to be a librarian in the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. 193 1 at the turn of autumn and winter, Hua entered the Tsinghua campus.

Hua works and studies in Tsinghua University. It took him two years to complete the road that ordinary people need eight years to complete. 1933 was promoted to teaching assistant, 1935 became a lecturer. 1936 was recommended by Tsinghua University and sent to Cambridge University in England. During his two years in Cambridge, he devoted all his energy to the study of mathematical theoretical problems and was unwilling to waste time applying for a degree. His research results have attracted the attention of the international mathematics community. 1938 returned to China and was employed by Professor The National SouthWest Associated University. From 1939 to 194 1, he wrote more than 20 papers under extremely difficult conditions and completed his first mathematical monograph, The Number of Quails. Under the influence of Mr. Wen Yiduo, he also actively participated in the anti-Japanese democratic and patriotic movement that was in full swing at that time. The element number theory of pile foundation later became a classic of mathematics. It was published in Russian in the Soviet Union from 65438 to 0947, and translated and published in German, English, Hungarian and Chinese in various countries.

1946 was invited to visit the Soviet union from February to May. 1946, the then national government also wanted to build an atomic bomb, so it sent three famous scientists, Hua, Zeng Zhaolun, to visit the United States. In September, Li Zhengdao, Zhu Guangya and others left Shanghai for the United States. They first served as visiting professors at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, and later were hired as tenured professors by the University of Illinois.

1949 After the founding of New China, Hua was very excited and determined to bring his family back to China. The five of them left the United States by boat and arrived in Hong Kong on February 1950. In Hongkong, he published an open letter to students studying in the United States, full of patriotic passion, encouraging them to return to China to serve the new China. On March 1 1, Xinhua News Agency broadcast this letter. On March 1950, Hua, his wife and children arrived in Beijing by train.

Hua returned to Tsinghua campus and served as the head of the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. Then, at the invitation of Guo Moruo, President of China Academy of Sciences, he started to build a mathematical research institute. 1952 In July, the Institute of Mathematics was established with him as its director. He devoted himself to training mathematical talents for New China, and Wang Yuan, Lu Qikeng, Gong Sheng, Chen Jingrun and Wan Zhexian all became famous mathematicians under his training.

In just a few years after returning to China, his research in the field of mathematics has been fruitful. His paper "On Functions of Multiple Complex Variables in Typical Fields" won the first prize of national invention in June 1957, and has been published in Chinese, Russian and English versions. 1957 published Introduction to Number Theory; 1959, Leipzig first published the estimation of exponential sum and its application in number theory in German, and then successively published Russian and Chinese versions. 1963 co-authored the book Typical Groups with student Wan Zhexian. In order to cultivate teenagers' enthusiasm for learning mathematics, he initiated and organized a mathematics competition for middle school students in Beijing. He personally participated in the problem setting, invigilation and marking, and repeatedly went to other places to publicize this activity. He also wrote a series of popular math books, which had a great influence on teenagers. He advocated cultivating academic atmosphere and conducting academic discussions in scientific research. He initiated the establishment of China Institute of Computer Technology, and was also one of the earliest scientists who advocated the development of electronic computers in China.

China participated in various social activities in New China with a high degree of patriotic enthusiasm. 1953, he participated in a delegation of China scientists visiting the Soviet union. As a representative of China mathematicians, he attended the first World Congress of Mathematicians after World War II in Hungary. He also participated in the Asia-Pacific Peace Conference and the World Peace Council. From 65438 to 0958, together with Guo Moruo, he led the China delegation to attend the conference on "Coordination of Science, Technology and Engineering Issues" held in New Delhi.

1958, Hua was appointed vice-president of China University of Science and Technology and head of the Department of Applied Mathematics. While continuing to study mathematical theory, he tried to find a way to combine mathematics with industrial and agricultural practice. After a period of practice, he found that the overall planning method and optimization method in mathematics can be widely used in industrial and agricultural production, which can improve work efficiency and change the face of work management. Therefore, while giving lectures at the University of Science and Technology, he led students to promote the optimization method and overall planning method in industrial and agricultural practice. At the beginning of 1964, he wrote to Chairman Mao, expressing his determination to take the road of combining workers and peasants. On March 18 of the same year, Chairman Mao wrote back in person: "Poems and letters have been read. Top gun, congratulations. " He wrote "Brief Introduction and Supplement to the Master Planning Law" and "Brief Introduction and Supplement to the Optimal Selection Law", and personally led the teachers and students of China University of Science and Technology to some enterprises and factories to promote and apply the "double methods" to serve industrial and agricultural production. "Go to Jianghan to fight the heat in summer and go to Songliao first frost in winter." This is a portrayal of his life at that time. Chairman Mao wrote to him again on 1965, congratulating and encouraging him to "work hard and serve the people instead of individuals".

After the "Cultural Revolution" began, Hua, who promoted the "double law" in other places, was called back to Beijing by express telegram to write an inspection and accept criticism. After learning this situation, Premier Zhou Enlai instructed: "The overall planning method is still necessary." 1in April, 970, the State Council invited the heads of seven industrial departments to attend a lecture on optimization and overall planning in China. Later, relying on his personal reputation, he seconded capable personnel to various places to form a "group to promote the optimal selection method and the overall planning method" and personally led a team to promote the "double methods" throughout the country to serve industrial and agricultural production. Team * * * has been to 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, and mass activities of scientific experiments and practices have been set off everywhere, which has achieved great economic and social benefits. His work has been concerned and supported by Hu Yaobang, Ye Jianying and other comrades.

During 1975, when he was promoting "double therapy" in Daxinganling, he suffered the first myocardial infarction because of overwork.

After the downfall of the Gang of Four, he was appointed vice president of China Academy of Sciences. His research achievements for many years, such as Starting from the Unit Circle, Application of Number Theory in Approximate Analysis (in cooperation with Wang Yuan) and Optimality Theory, have also been published. 1979 In May, after being isolated from the outside world for more than 10 years, he visited Western Europe for seven months, and with the desire of "playing chess, teaching others how to do things", he introduced his mathematics research results to his international counterparts.

1982 1 1 month, his second myocardial infarction.

1983 5438+00 June, at the invitation of California Institute of Technology, went to the United States for a one-year lecture. During his stay in the United States, he attended the inaugural meeting of the Third World Academy of Sciences held in Park Jung-soo, Italy, and was elected as an academician. 1in April, 984, he attended the ceremony of awarding him a foreign academician by the American Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and he was the first China person to receive this honor. 1985 was elected as the vice chairman of the CPPCC at the Third Session of the Sixth CPPCC in April.

Hua has done a lot of social work. He is a member of the first to sixth the NPC Standing Committee; /kloc-0 joined NLD in September, 1952, and/kloc-0 was elected as the vice chairman of NLD Central Committee in September, 1979. 1958 requested to join the China * * * production party, and 1979 was approved to join the China * * * production party in June. In response to Comrade Deng's encouragement, he said: "The horizontal knife does not care about hoary heads, but leaps to young adults and lives up to the name of party member."

June 3 1985 Visited Japan at the invitation of Japan Asian Cultural Exchange Association. On June 12, at 4 pm, he gave a speech to the Japanese mathematics community in the lecture hall of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Tokyo. The topic is "Pure Mathematics and Its Application". At 5 pm, the speech ended. At the moment he received the flowers, his body suddenly leaned back and fell on the rostrum. At 65: 438+00: 09 pm, he was declared dead of acute myocardial infarction.

Hua's achievements in mathematics in his life are enormous, and he has made outstanding contributions in many fields, such as number theory, matrix geometry, typical groups, automorphic function theory, multiple complex variable function theory, partial differential equations, high-dimensional numerical integration and so on. He has made such great achievements because he has a sincere patriotism and indomitable spirit of innovation. Because of this, he was able to resolutely give up the generous treatment of American tenured professors and welcome the dawn of the motherland; He can resist criticism and attack, work hard, serve the people instead of individuals, and become an outstanding scientist who enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

China Institute of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics

Comrade Hua is a great mathematician, China party member, an outstanding leader of China Democratic League, an outstanding scientist, educator and social activist, Vice Chairman Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, member of the Presidium of China Academy of Sciences, member of the Faculty, and Vice Chairman of China Association for Science and Technology. 1June, 985 12 died in Tokyo at the age of 74. The death of Comrade Hua is a great loss to the cause of science and technology of our party and people. The people of the whole country are deeply saddened by the loss of a great scientist.

1924, he graduated from junior high school in Jintan County and entered Shanghai China Vocational School. Because of his poor family, he left school a year later and became an apprentice in the small grocery store run by his father. During this period, he taught himself mathematics in his spare time. 1929 worked as chief accountant in Jintan middle school and began to publish papers in Shanghai Science magazine. His paper "Why the solution of Su Jiaju's algebraic quintic equation can't be established" attracted the attention of Professor Xiong Qinglai, head of the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. 193 1 year. On the recommendation of Professor Xiong, he went to work in Tsinghua University. It took him only eight years to go to Cambridge University in England as an administrator, teaching assistant and lecturer. 1938, he was appointed as a professor of Kunming National Southwest Associated University. Under extremely difficult living conditions, he taught during the day and worked tirelessly under the vegetable oil lamp at night, and wrote the famous book "On the Base". However, under the Kuomintang rule, this masterpiece could not be published, so it had to be published abroad, and it was not officially released in China until after liberation. 1in the autumn of 946, forced by the white terror, he left the United States and successively served as a researcher at Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies and a tenured professor at the University of Illinois. 195O, in response to the call of the motherland, comrades resolutely returned to Beijing from the United States. He has served as Professor Tsinghua University, Director of the Institute of Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, Member and Deputy Director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of China Academy of Sciences, Director and Vice President of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Science and Technology of China, Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of China Academy of Sciences, Vice President of China Academy of Sciences, and Dean of the Institute of Optimization Methods and Economic Mathematics of China. He devoted his life to the development of science in the motherland, especially to the study of mathematics.

His famous academic paper, The Theory of Functions of Multiple Complex Variables in Typical Fields, has made pioneering work in the field of mathematics and won the first prize of China Science in 1957. His research achievements are named Fahrenheit Theorem, Brouwer-Gadang-Hua Theorem and Hua-Wang (Yuan) Method by the international mathematical community. Comrade Hua left us 200 academic papers and 10 monographs in his life, 8 of which were translated and published abroad, and some of them have been included in mathematical masterpieces of this century. He also wrote more than ten popular science works. Because of his outstanding achievements in scientific research, he was elected as a foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, an honorary doctor of Nancy University in France, the University of Illinois in the United States and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an academician of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in the Federal Republic of Germany. His name has been recorded in the annals of internationally renowned scientists. Comrade Hua is the pride of the scientific community in China, the pride of the Chinese nation and the pride of one billion people in China.

Comrade Hua was also the earliest scientist in China who closely combined the research of mathematical theory with production practice and made great contributions. Since the late 1950s, he has stepped out of his study and classroom and entered the vast industrial and agricultural production practice. He creatively applied mathematical methods to the field of national economy, screened out the "optimization method" with the content of improving production technology and quality and the "overall planning method" with the content of dealing with production organization and management problems (referred to as "double method"), and wrote two popular science books, namely "optimization method and its supplement" and "overall planning method and its supplement" in plain language. For more than 20 years, Comrade Hua has traveled all over the country in 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions to publicize the "double laws". He organized and led the broad masses of workers, peasants, soldiers and engineers and technicians to participate in the popularization of "double methods", which made the "double methods" widely popularized and even applied to the research of national key construction projects, which not only achieved remarkable economic benefits for saving energy, increasing production, reducing consumption and shortening the construction period, but also cultivated a scientific and technological team serving the national economy. Comrade Mao Zedong spoke highly of this scientific innovation of Comrade Hua. 1964 and 1965, he wrote to Comrade China twice, congratulating him on "aiming high" and "working hard, not for individuals and serving the people". "During the ten years of turmoil, when comrades in China were persecuted by the counter-revolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing, comrades stood up in a fearless spirit, protected comrades in China, and supported him to continue to engage in the research and promotion of' double laws'. 1982, Comrade Hu Yaobang wrote to Comrade China, fully affirming his application of mathematical theory to production practice, calling on "more comrades to take part in tackling key problems of new technologies and new processes, and push forward China's four modernizations", and * * * built the "Tower of Babel" in China.

Comrade Hua is an outstanding representative of intellectuals in China. He has gone through two different times, old and new, and changed from a patriot to a fighter. In his early years, he participated in the anti-Japanese democratic and patriotic movement led by China's * * * production party, and was a close friend of the martyrs of Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo. 1in the spring of 946, he was invited to visit the Soviet Union and wrote "Visit to the Soviet Union in March" to express his yearning for socialism. The birth of the new China, more inspired his patriotic enthusiasm. Seeing "the dawn of the motherland", he gave up the generous treatment of tenured professors in the United States, broke through the heavy blockade and returned to the embrace of the motherland. On the ship crossing the Pacific Ocean, he wrote to his classmates studying in the United States: "In order to choose the truth, we should go back;" For the sake of the nation, we should go back; In order to serve the people, we should also go back ... and fight for the construction and development of our great motherland! "He is patriotic, fearless and pure, and he is praised by the broad masses of the people and all patriotic intellectuals. In the long-term scientific research work, especially in the process of combining scientific research with production practice, Comrade Hua studied Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought hard, improved his ideological and political consciousness, and strongly demanded to join the China * * * Producers' Party and fight for the cause of * * *. During the ten years of turmoil, although he was in adversity, he did not shake his faith in the party. Since bringing order out of chaos, I have sincerely supported the line, principles and policies of the Party since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, and I am in a good mood and refreshed. 1979, under the cordial care of the CPC Central Committee, he gloriously joined the China * * * Production Party and realized his long-cherished wish. In his reply to Comrade Deng's congratulatory message, he wrote excitedly: "The sea doesn't donate a drop of water, and the red furnace cultivates sand into gold, and the four turn to the top soldiers." "Cross knife regardless of the bald head, the horse nearly young and strong, not in the name of party member. "This fully shows the firm belief and noble sentiment of a fighter. He regards joining the Party as a new starting point for his way forward and demands himself more strictly. Despite his old age and infirmity, he finally recalled the manuscript stolen during the ten-year catastrophe with amazing perseverance and made new development, and wrote the Mathematical Theory of Large-scale Optimization of Planned Economy, which not only described the previous research results completely, but also made new progress.

Comrade Hua is also a famous social activist. He is a member of the 1st to 6th the NPC Standing Committee, vice chairman of the 6th China People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of China Democratic League. He cares about national affairs, actively participates in national political life, and makes suggestions for economic construction and the development of science, culture and education. He took an active part in NLD activities and made important contributions to the development of NLD work, the expansion of the patriotic United front and the reunification of the motherland. In recent years, he has visited abroad many times, made many friends, and engaged in the great unity of intellectuals in China. He often used the poem "and heaven remains our neighbourhood is a confidant overseas" to encourage overseas Chinese to contribute to the four modernizations of the motherland, realize the third cooperation of the country, complete the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, and make valuable contributions to strengthening friendly cooperation and scientific and cultural exchanges between China and people of other countries. Comrade Hua is a great mathematician who promotes the progress of China's scientific career and a model for a generation of China people to become self-taught. Comrade Hua lived a glorious life and fought for the people. In order to revitalize China and human progress, he devoted his life to the scientific cause of the people. The road he took was, first of all, a bright road for China intellectuals to advance in this century. Comrade Hua has added new wealth to the scientific and cultural treasures of China and the world, and left us a rich spiritual legacy. He is an example to our people, especially the younger generation. Comrade Hua is self-taught, diligent and realistic, brave in pioneering and forging ahead. He went to school for nine years and only had a junior high school diploma. Eventually he became an outstanding scientist at home and abroad, and his success depended entirely on hard self-study. Even in his later years, his prestige and position in the academic circles were already high, and he still insisted on reading and writing. He has never been superstitious about genius, thinking that "genius comes from accumulation, and cleverness lies in diligence". As a warning to himself, he put forward the famous saying that "the old tree is easy to empty, the old man is easy to loose, and the scientific way is to keep it empty and loose, and I am willing to be loyal to it all my life." Shortly before his death, he wrote: "You don't know wisdom until you are white, and you should work hard for the future. Diligence is a good medicine, and one point of hard work is a talent. " This is the secret of Comrade Hua's success.

Comrade Hua loves the motherland, the party and serving the people wholeheartedly. He often said: "Science has no national boundaries, but scientists have their own motherland." His enterprise's love for the socialist motherland and his love for the Party are organically linked. As long as the Party needs it, he is willing to cook soup and make a fire. He took "serving the people wholeheartedly" as his motto and used it as a yardstick to measure all right and wrong. He dissolved his thoughts, behaviors, pursuits and ideals in the highest interests of the motherland, the party and the people, and was worthy of being a noble producer. Comrade Hua carefully supported the younger generation to grow sturdily. He attaches great importance to discovering and recommending outstanding talents. He is the founder and organizer of the Mathematics Competition for Middle School Students in New China, guiding teenagers to love science from childhood, entering the field of mathematics research, and supporting them to become a new generation of mathematicians in China. Comrade Hua worked hard for the four modernizations to the last breath. Ten years ago, Comrade Hua suffered from myocardial infarction for the first time. After he was discharged from the hospital, he left such a poem: "A strong man died of cold, and I don't care about some scars. Attack the Millennium old demon, strive for a hundred generations of new styles, and throw yourself generously! " /kloc-in the autumn of 0/982, he was overworked because he wrote day and night. He suffered a second myocardial infarction and was admitted to the hospital. He earnestly asked his assistants to stick to the direction of serving the national economy and promote the development of applied mathematics in solving practical problems. On June 3rd this year, he led a group of middle-aged business backbones to Japan for academic exchange. /kloc-on the afternoon of 0/2, when he was giving an academic report to the Japanese mathematics community, he had a heart attack and died unfortunately, and a star fell. Our beloved Comrade Hua gave his precious life for the four modernizations of the motherland and for strengthening the friendly cooperation between the Chinese and Japanese people and the two peoples in the field of science and technology, and realized his grand oath of "doing my best to the cause of * * *". Comrade Hua said goodbye to us forever, and the Chinese spirit will exist forever. Let's follow his example and continue to contribute to the rapid development of China.