Pao Ming Pu

Pao Ming Pu (; August 1910 – February 22, 1988) was a Chinese mathematician born in Jintang County, Sichuan, China. He was a student of Charles Loewner and a pioneer of systolic geometry, having proved what is today called Pu's inequality for the real projective plane, following Loewner's proof of Loewner's torus inequality. He later worked in the area of fuzzy mathematics. He spent much of his career as professor and chairman of the department of mathematics at Sichuan University. containing both Pu's inequality for the real projective plane and Loewner's torus inequality. The listing at the Mathematics Genealogy Project indicates that his first name, according to Syracuse University records, was Frank.

Pu returned to mainland China in February 1951. Most of his later papers concern fuzzy topology. Pu's seminal article from 1952 is cited by at least 93 mathematical works, a high score by mathematical standards. His joint work with Liu in fuzzy topology continues to be cited frequently in current literature in fuzzy mathematics.