In 1956, a 37-year-old young man and the famous scientists Hua Luogeng and Qian Xuesen joined him.
Won the first prize of the first national natural science award.
In 2001, the young man was 82 years old.
This time, he stood on the podium of the inaugural National High-Tech Awards.
He is the famous mathematician Mr. Wu Wenjun.
Today, he leaves us forever.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Liwang
Wu Wenjun is one of the most internationally influential mathematicians in China, he has made significant contributions to topology, the core field of mathematics, created a new field of mathematical mechanization, and had a profound impact on mathematics and computer science research. His research work involves algebraic topology, differential topology, algebraic geometry, countermeasure theory, chinese mathematical history, mathematical mechanization and other mathematical fields, and has made unique contributions in it.
Wu Wenjun was born in Shanghai on May 12, 1919. He graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1940 and went to work at the Institute of Mathematics of academia Sinica in 1946. In 1947, he went to the University of Strasbourg in France to study, received his doctorate in France in 1949, and then worked as a researcher at the French National Science Center. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wu Wenjun returned to China in 1951 and successively served in Peking University, the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Systems of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In 1952, Wu Wenjun, while teaching at Peking University, was a teacher
In Beijing, 1953
Wu Wenjun in 1956 photographed by Jiang Qisheng, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency
In 1962, Wu Wenjun gave a lecture at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Wu Wenjun first served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Peking University, and in 1952 he was a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, until 1980, when he transferred to the Institute of Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in 1998 to the newly established Institute of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was the Chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society (1985-1987), the Director of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1992-1994), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee (1979-1998), the President of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002, and the Honorary Director of the Institute of Systems of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1993.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Liuren
In 1974, Wu Wenjun gave an academic report at the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Photo by Yang Wumin, Xinhua News Agency
Wu Wenjun reads books in his office.
Wu Wenjun flipped through the materials at home. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Quancheng
Wu Wenjun has won the first National High-tech Award, the first National Natural Science First Prize, the first Qiushi Outstanding Scientist Award, the Run Run Run Shaw Mathematics Award, known as the Oriental Nobel Prize, and the Herbrand Automatic Reasoning Outstanding Achievement Award, the highest international automatic reasoning award. Many of the students he has trained have become leaders in their fields. The Key Laboratory of Mathematical Mechanization, which he established, is one of the leading research centers in the field of international symbolic computing.
Famous Chinese mathematicians Chen Jingrun (right) and Wu Wenjun (center) talk. Photo by Yang Wumin, Xinhua News Agency
On October 1, 1977, Wu Wenjun (second from left), Chen Jingrun (fourth from left), researchers of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and associate researchers Yang Le (third from left) and Zhang Guanghou (first from left) visited the Summer Palace. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhao Yong
On August 30, 2002, Wu Wenjun (right), a famous mathematician and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Xie Dingyu, director of the Zhou Peiyuan Research Center for Applied Mathematics of Tsinghua University, talked between the first International Symposium on Frontiers of Applied Mathematics in China. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Chengxuan
On August 27, 2002, Wu Wenjun, a famous mathematician and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, gave a public report at the 2002 International Symposium on the History of Chinese Mathematics at the International Congress of Mathematicians, introducing the history of Chinese mathematics in English and answering questions raised by the audience. After the report, polish mathematician Zemanek (left) asked Academician Wu Wenjun to sign a souvenir. Photo by Yu Xiaoping, Xinhua News Agency
Yan Keats, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous physicist (center), wu Wenjun (second from right), mathematician Wu Wenjun (front second from right), and physicist Ma Dayu (fifth from left) are with the students of the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Shumei
On February 19, 2001, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council solemnly held the National Science and Technology Awards Conference in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Yuan Longping (left), winners of the country's highest science and technology award, and Wu Wenjun on the rostrum. Photo by Ju Peng, Xinhua News Agency
When Elder Wu was seventy years old, he once wrote a poem about oil: "Seventy is not unusual, eighty is, ninety is precious, and one hundred can also be expected." By the time he was eighty years old, he made subtle changes to the poem, adding ten years to each sentence. In the eyes of familiar people, Wu Lao is an "old naughty boy", he is optimistic and cheerful, and often has some amazing moves. Once, when he went to a seminar in Hong Kong and went out to play between meetings, he was in his old age and rode a roller coaster and had a lot of fun; during a visit to Thailand, he sat on an elephant's nose and laughed and took pictures.
In 1978, Wu Wenjun's family took a group photo in Beijing.
In December 2000, Wu Wenjun took a group photo with an elephant while on vacation.
In December 2000, Wu Wenjun took a photo with his wife Chen Pihe while participating in the "Asian Computer Mathematics Conference" in Thailand.
Serving the country is more than a nail, and he has been gone for nearly a hundred years. Elder Wu, go well!
All unsigned photos are from the China Photo Archive
Some of the text material comes from the official website of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Editor: Cheng Tingting