Sun Guangyuan
Chinese mathematician
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| Intro | Chinese mathematician | ||||||
| Places | China | ||||||
| was | Mathematician | ||||||
| Work field | Mathematics | ||||||
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| Birth | 1900 | ||||||
| Death | 1979 (aged 79 years) | ||||||
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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. 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.