Duan Xuefu

AWARDEE OF MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS PRIZE

DUAN XUEFU

Prof. Hsio-Fu Tuan(Duan Xuefu)was born on July 29, 1914,in Shanxi Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 1936 and got his Ph. D.in Princeton University in 1943. Prof.  Tuan is the pioneer of the research in China of the theory of finite group and representations. As a member of Academia Sinica and eminent mathematician in China, he has made outstanding contributions in the modular representations theory of finite groups, algebraic Lie Algebras, coding theory, cryptology and the study of p-groups. Returning from the Unites States to China in autumn of 1946, Prof. Tuan devoted himself exclusively to mathematical research and education, had been in charge of the Department of Mathematics in Tsinghua University and Peking University,trained and brought up a large number of Chinese mathematicians.