After receiving education in private schools, primary schools and middle schools, Zhuang Qitai was admitted to Tsinghua University on 1927 and studied in the engineering department for one year. At that time, the motivation for choosing engineering came from the consideration of employment after graduation, but this learning direction was not suitable for him. After many conversations with others, he gradually became interested in astronomy and relativity. In the evening, he looks at Venus through the telescope of the Physics Department and reads books in the library. Until now, he is still very interested in the new discoveries in astronomy, so he has the idea of switching to astronomy. Because there was no astronomy department in Tsinghua at that time, he wanted to transfer to the department of physics, but the department of physics was very strict with the transfer system and failed. Finally, I transferred to the Department of Mathematics, which is close to the Department of Physics. It is precisely because of these good performances that Zhuang Qitai was admitted to the Department of Computing of the Faculty of Science with 1934 and became a graduate student of Professor Xiong Qinglai. During his two years as a graduate student, he finished three papers, the topics of the first two of which were self-selected. Namely "Generalization of Montel's Theory" and "Uniform Convergence of Some Function Sequences", both of which were published in academic journals in Tsinghua University. The third paper studies the topic put forward by Xiong Qinglai: "On the distribution of me values of meromorphic functions of infinite order". This paper was published in Journal of chinese mathematical society. 1935, Mr. Xiong hired French mathematician J. Hadamard and American mathematician N. Wiener to give lectures in Tsinghua University. Adama offered two courses, one of which was partial differential equation.
Zhuang Qitai took the exam of this course and successfully answered Adama's question, so he was praised and highly praised. Zhuang Qitai's scientific research work belongs to the basic theory of mathematics. During the period around 1973, he also did some research work closely related to practical application. At that time, he was engaged in "opening school" and advocated integrating theory with practice. He was placed in a group of 73 people in the Department of Mathematics. The problems he studied came from the factory, the instrument factory of the Academy of Sciences, and the Seventh Machinery Department. With different problems, the depth of mathematics used is also different. Some problems only need calculus, and some problems use conformal transformation or elliptic function. For example, No.7 Machinery Department proposed to calculate the size of a coupling. He used Jacobian elliptic function to come up with some skills and found a very effective calculation method.
After the Cultural Revolution, Zhuang Qitai returned to the study of basic theory. Since 1979, more than ten papers have been published, and the work Singular Direction of Meromorphic Functions has been compiled. Since 1978, he has organized seminars on complex variable functions and instructed some graduate students. Up to now, five graduate students have obtained master's degrees, and 1 has obtained master's degrees.
Zhuang Qitai works very seriously and responsibly. On one occasion, in order to edit and publish a book, he personally went to Peking University Zhongguancun dormitory to talk about it. At that time, he was over 80 years old, and similar incidents have happened many times. Although Zhuang Qitai is retired now, he still insists on doing some research work.
Zhuang Qitai has trained many students in whole functions, meromorphic functions and quasi-conformal transformations. The research work of Yang Le and Zhang Guanghou, rising stars in the field of mathematics, has received the attention and guidance of Zhuang Qitai. For more than ten years, he not only directed the scientific research work of young teachers and graduate students, but also organized and presided over the national academic conference on simple functions and complex variable functions, making efforts to promote the development of the theory and application of complex variable analysis in China.
In view of Zhuang Qitai's achievements in his works, Marquis Publishing House of the United States included a brief introduction to his life in the fifth edition of Who's Who in the World.