Hu Hesheng | |
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| Born | (1928-06-20)20 June 1928 Shanghai, Republic of China |
| Died | 2 February 2024(2024-02-02) (aged 95) |
| Alma mater | Zhejiang University |
| Known for | Research in differential geometry and mathematical physics |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Fudan University |
| Doctoral advisor | Su Buqing |
Hu Hesheng (Chinese:胡和生;pinyin:Hú Héshēng; 20 June 1928 – 2 February 2024) was a Chinese mathematician. She served as vice-president ofChinese Mathematical Society, president of the Shanghai Mathematical Society, and was an academician ofChinese Academy of Sciences.[1] She gave theNoether Lecture in 2002.[2]
Born inShanghai, Hu studied mathematics atNational Chiao Tung University (nowShanghai Jiaotong University) andGreat China University. She received her master's degree in mathematics fromZhejiang University in 1952, under the supervision ofSu Buqing. From 1952 to 1956, she was a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1956, she began working as a lecturer atFudan University in Shanghai, later becoming anassociate professor and eventually achieving full-time professorship.[3]
Hu served as vice president of the Chinese Mathematical Society and president of the Shanghai Mathematical Society. In 2002, she was chosen as theEmmy Noether Lecturer for that year'sInternational Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China.[4] She was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and as an academician of theThird World Academy of Science in 2003.[5]
Her main academic interests weredifferential geometry andmathematical physics.[5] She led a research group at Fudan University during the 1980s and 1990s.
Hu's husband wasGu Chaohao, also a mathematician, who served as the president ofUniversity of Science and Technology of China.[6] They were married until his death in 2012.
Hu Hesheng died on 2 February 2024, at the age of 95.[7]
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