Mathematician:Chen Jingrun

Mathematician

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

Results named for Chen Jingrun can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Chen Jingrun can be found here.

Publications

• 1963: The Lattice Points in the Circle (Sci. Sinica Vol. 12: pp. 322 – 339)
• 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 Vol. 17) (in which Chen's Theorem is presented)
• 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 Vol. 16) (in which Chen's Theorem is proved)
• 1979: On the distribution of almost primes in an interval II (Sci. Sinica Vol. 22: pp. 253 – 275)

Also known as

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

In Western publications his name is usually seen as Jingrun Chen or Jing-Run Chen or some such.

Chen is his family name.

His name can also be rendered Chen Jing Run or Chen Jing-Run.

Some citations render his name as Jing-jun Chen, or J-j. Chen, and so on.

Sources

• 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $7$: Patterns in Numbers: Fermat