Chen Jingrun
22 May 1933 – 19 March 1996
Chen Jingrun was a Chinese mathematician who worked in analytic number theory at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for Chen's theorem, proved in 1966 and published in full in 1973, which states that every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of a prime and a number that is either prime or the product of two primes. A 1978 work of reportage by Xu Chi about his work made him widely known in China.
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Life events
He completed his studies in the mathematics department and was assigned to teach at a school in Beijing.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was recruited to the institute in Beijing on the recommendation of Hua Luogeng.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe published a statement of the result on the representation of large even numbers as a prime plus a product of at most two primes.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe complete proof appeared in Scientia Sinica and was recognised as a major advance towards Goldbach's conjecture.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe widely circulated piece made him a nationally known figure in China.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe married a military doctor; their son was born the following year.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis health declined steadily in his final years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died at the age of 62 after a long illness.
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