中英雙語話中國歷史名人 第89期:華羅庚

Hua Luogeng(1910~1985) was a mathematician. Hua was born in a small business family.

華羅庚(1910~1985)，數學家，出生於小商人家庭。

He had a capable middle school math teacher who recognized his potential early, and encouraged him to read advanced texts.

華羅庚的一個很有能力的中學數學老師很早就發現了他的潛力，鼓勵他看高年級的課本。

Hua was partially paral yzed in his late teenage, due to mistreatment in a prolonged illness during which he stayed in bed for half a year.

華羅庚將近20歲時染上傷寒病，與死神搏鬥半年，雖然活了下來，但卻留下終身殘疾--右腿瘸了。

His first significant result regarded a paper written by Dr. Su Jiaju. Hua studied Abel's original paper on the unsolvability of quintics and found a miscalculation in a 13*13 matrix in Su's paper. Henceforth Hua published his refutal in an authoritative mathematics journal in China, which was discovered by some professors in Qinghua University, especially Dr. Xiong Qinglai.

華羅庚寫了一篇《蘇家駒之代數的五次方程不成立的理由》，發表在上海《科學》雜誌上，這篇文章被清華大學數學系主任熊慶來博士發現。

He was the founder and pioneer of many fields in mathematics research.

華羅庚是中國數學多方面研究的創始人和開拓者。

He wrote more than 200 pieces of thesis and monographs, many of which have become classic documents.

發表研究論文200多篇，並有專著很多種，其中很多都已成爲經典文獻。

Since his sudden death while giving a lecture in Japan, many mathematics secondary education programs have been named after him.

自從華羅庚在日本做講座時突然去世後，很多中等數學教育項目都以他的名字命名。

In the early 1930's, his book on Cumulative Prime Number Theory has been influential to many subsequent number theorists in China, including renowned Chen Jingrun who obtained the best result so far in the binary Goldbach conjecture.

20世紀30年代早期，華羅庚的《堆壘素數論》影響了中國後來的很多數論家，包括目前在哥德巴赫猜想(1十2)的證明中取得最好成績的陳景潤。