Sun Guangyuan
Sun Guangyuan (simplified Chinese: 孙光远; traditional Chinese: 孫光遠; pinyin: Sūn Guāngyuǎn; Wade–Giles: Sun Kuang-yüan, 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.[1] 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.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Dan Sun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Dan Sun (1927,8) "Osculating derivative of a ruled surface", Annals of Mathematics 29(1-4): 95–105
