Mathematician:Chen Jingrun
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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
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. Chen is his family name.
His name can also be rendered Chen Jing Run or Chen Jing-Run.
Sources
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $7$: Patterns in Numbers: Fermat