Su Buqing (September 23, 1902 – March 17, 2003) was a Chinese

China

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 mathematician

Mathematician

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 and educator.

He was born in Pingyang

Pingyang County

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 in Zhejiang

Zhejiang

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 Province in 1902. He graduated from Tohoku Imperial University

Tohoku University

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 in Japan in 1927 and received his Ph.D. from the University in 1931. He returned to China after his study in Japan, first served as a professor and dean at Zhejiang University

Zhejiang University

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 (he established the well-known Chen-Su School with Chen Jian'gong), and later as a professor and president and honorary president of Fudan University

Fudan University

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. He was honorary chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society and elected to Academia Sinica

Academia Sinica

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 and Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese Academy of Sciences

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 in 1948 and 1955 respectively. Together with Hua Luogeng

Hua Luogeng

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, they were the most influential figures in mathematical society of modern China.

Praised as the "first geometer in the orient", Su was engaged in research, teaching and education in differential geometry and computational geometry

Computational geometry

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. In his early years, he made excellent contributions to affine differential geometry

Affine differential geometry

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 and projective differential geometry

Projective differential geometry

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. He obtained extraordinary achievements in general space differential geometry,
conjugate net theory in higher dimensional space and computer aided geometry design.