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Wang Yuan

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Wang Yuan (1930-2021): A mathematician born in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province (ancestral home in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province). He graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University in 1952. Starting as a researcher of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wang Yuan later served as the head of division and director of the institute. He was the chairman of Chinese Mathematical Society, the editor-in-chief of Acta Mathematica Sinica, the editor of Analysis, a German magazine, and the consultant of World Scientific, a Singaporean Publishing House. He became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

He mainly studied analytic number theory. From the 1950s to the early 1960s, he was the first researcher in China to apply the sieve method to the study of Goldbach’s conjecture and proved the propositions [3,4]. In 1957, he proved the propositions [2,3]. This was the first time that Chinese scholars entered the leading cohort in this research field worldwide, and his results were frequently cited by other domestic and overseas researchers. In 1973, he cooperated with Hua Luogeng to prove the general theorem of uniformly distributed point penetration of a high-dimensional unit cube constructed with an independent unit system in a cyclotomic domain, which was hailed as “Hua-Wang method” by the international academia. Wang Yuan was also the winner of Hua Luogeng prize in mathematics.