191710/0. In October, Mr. Cai Yuanpei, a famous scholar, educator and democratic revolutionary, became the president of Peking University, and Peking University entered a new stage of development. 19 19 Autumn, Peking University changed the word "door" to "department". When determining the sequence of each department, Cai Yuanpei pointed out: "The purpose of a university, who governs the applied science of philosophy and literature, must start with pure science; Anyone who treats pure science should start with mathematics. Therefore, the departments are orderly, and the mathematics department is the first department. " Today, the School of Mathematical Sciences still ranks first among all departments in the school.
1in the autumn of 952, in order to meet the needs of the country's large-scale economic construction, colleges and universities across the country were adjusted. After adjustment, the Department of Mathematics of Peking University, the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University and the Department of Mathematics of yenching university established the new Department of Mathematical Mechanics of Peking University. 1969 Shaanxi Hanzhong Peking university branch established the department of mechanics. 1985, probability statistics department was established independently. With the development of the cause and the change of the situation, on the basis of the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Probability and Statistics, 1995 established the Peking University Institute of Mathematical Science. Peking University Institute of Mathematical Sciences (the former Department of Mathematics before 1995) has been led by famous mathematicians, Duan Xuefu, Ding and Jiang Boju, and the current president of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences is Professor Tian Gang.
In the past 90 years, after several generations' efforts and struggles, great changes have taken place in the mathematics discipline of Peking University, and teaching, scientific research and other work have been continuously promoted. The School of Mathematical Sciences has trained more than 8,000 graduates for the country, who have struggled on all fronts of national construction, including more than 30 academicians of the two academies. Academician Wu Wenjun and Academician Wang Xuan, who won the highest national science and technology award, are outstanding representatives among the alumni of the School of Mathematical Sciences. The School of Mathematical Sciences won the special prize of national excellent teaching achievement in 20001year, and ranked first in the national mathematics first-class discipline appraisal of the Ministry of Education in 2002 and 2006. The four two disciplines's of the School of Mathematical Sciences have all been rated as national key disciplines, which undertake the heavy responsibility of cultivating excellent undergraduate, master, doctoral and postdoctoral students in mathematics for the country. Graduates are distributed in various industries at home and abroad. Many of them are business backbones, and some of them have become well-known entrepreneurs and have been highly praised by all walks of life.