华罗庚

華羅庚

Huà Luógēng

proper noun

Meanings

1 Hua Luogeng
2 Chinese mathematician and pioneer of number theory in China

About Hua Luogeng

1910–1985 · 科学家 scientist

Mathematician who taught himself after leaving school young and rose to Tsinghua and Cambridge. After 1949 he led number theory in China and toured factories teaching planning methods such as 优选法.

Characters

华

huà

surname Hua (tone shift)

seventh Heavenly Stem; age

Examples

HSK 7-9

华罗庚是中国现代数学的奠基人之一。

Huà Luógēng shì Zhōngguó xiàndài shùxué de diànjīrén zhīyī.

Hua Luogeng was one of the founders of modern Chinese mathematics.

HSK 7-9

华罗庚推广了优选法，帮助工厂提高生产效率。

Huà Luógēng tuīguǎng le yōuxuǎnfǎ, bāngzhù gōngchǎng tígāo shēngchǎn xiàolǜ.

Hua Luogeng popularized optimization methods that helped factories improve efficiency.

Tips

history

He left school because his family could not pay the fees, and typhoid in his late teens left his left leg lame for life. What took him to Tsinghua was a 1930 paper in the magazine 《科学》 showing that 苏家驹's solution of the quintic equation was wrong.

memory

Family name 华 takes the tone 'huà' (not 'huá') when used as a surname - contrast with 华人 (huárén, ethnic Chinese).

Stroke Order

华 huá

罗 luó

庚 gēng

华罗庚