About Sun Guangyuan
Lived 1900 – 1979. Sun Guangyuan was a Chinese mathematician.
Sun Guangyuan (, 1900–1979), also known as Sun Tang (孫鎕), was a Chinese mathematician.
He studied projective geometry under Ernest Preston Lane at the University of Chicago. Later Sun became a professor in Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Sun used Ernest Julius Wilczynski's expression of a ruled surface given via two linear homogeneous differential equations in a 1927 publication.
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Who was Sun Guangyuan?
Chinese mathematician (1900–1979)
When was Sun Guangyuan born?
Sun Guangyuan was born in 1900 in Yuhang District.
When did Sun Guangyuan die?
Sun Guangyuan died in 1979 in Nanjing.
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Sun Guangyuan was a mathematician.
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Sun Guangyuan was Chinese.
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