Pan Chengdong

Pan Chengdong (Chinese: 潘承洞; pinyin: Pān Chéngdòng; 26 May 1934 – 27 December 1997) was a Chinese mathematician who made numerous contributions to number theory, including progress on Goldbach's conjecture. He was vice president of Shandong University and took the role of president from 1986 to 1997.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Pan.
Pan Chengdong
Born(1934-05-26)26 May 1934
Died27 December 1997(1997-12-27) (aged 63)
NationalityChinese
Alma materPeking University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsShandong University
Doctoral advisorMin Sihe
Hua Luogeng
Doctoral studentsWang Xiaoyun

Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on 26 May 1934, he entered the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics of Peking University in 1952[2] and obtained a postgraduate degree in 1961 advised by Min Sihe, a student of Edward Charles Titchmarsh. He then went to work at the Department of Mathematics of Shandong University.

He was honored with an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science in 1991.[3]

Previously, Wang Yuan made progress toward Goldbach’s Conjecture on the distribution of prime numbers. His result was that for any sufficiently large even number, that number is the sum of two numbers—one a product of at most two primes, the other a product of at most three primes. This case is denoted by (2,3). In 1962, Pan Chengdong also made progress in proving Goldbach’s conjecture [4] by proving the (1,5) case independently and the (1,4) case the following year with N.B. Barban and Wang Yuan.[5]

References
  1. "Professor Pan Chengdong". www.sdu.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 1999-10-08.
  2. "Professor Pan Chengdong". www.sdu.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 1999-10-08.
  3. "Number Theory in Shandong University". www.prime.sdu.edu.cn. Archived from the original on 2007-09-12.
  4. Hsiung, C.C. (1983). Mathematical Essays in Honor of Su Buchin. pp. 163–167.
  5. Buchin, S.; Laixiang, S. (1981). 30 Years' Review of China's Science & Technology, 1949-1979. pp. 53–63.


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