Mathematician:Chen Jingrun

Simplified Chinese: 陈景润; traditional Chinese: 陳景潤; pinyin: Chén Jǐngrùn; Wade-Giles: Ch'en Chingjun. Chen is his family name.

Chinese mathematician who made significant inroads into Goldbach's Conjecture by proving what is now referred to as Chen's Theorem.

Nationality
Chinese

History

 * Born: May 22, 1933, Fu Zhou, Fu Jian province, China
 * Died: March 19, 1996

Theorems and Definitions

 * Chen's Theorem
 * Chen Prime

Publications

 * 1966: On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and a product of at most two primes (Kexue Tongbao 17) (in which Chen's Theorem is stated)
 * 1973: On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and a product of at most two primes (Sci. Sinica 16) (in which Chen's Theorem is proved)