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UPDATED: June 29, 2012 NO. 27 JULY 5, 2012
Famed Mathematician Passes Away
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The renowned Chinese mathematician Gu Chaohao passed away in Shanghai on June 24.

Born in 1926 in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Gu received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from Moscow State University in 1959. He was vice president of Fudan University in Shanghai and president of the University of Science and Technology of China in Anhui Province. He became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 and an academician of the Russia-based International Higher Education Academy of Sciences in 1994.

Gu won the nation's top science and technology award in 2009. He was honored for his important contributions to differential geometry, partial differential equations and mathematical physics, three subdisciplines of modern mathematics.

In August 2009, with the approval of the Minor Planet Center, an asteroid was named after Gu to honor his contributions to humankind.



 
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