Xiong Qinglai
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is 熊 (Xiong).
Xiong Qinglai (traditional Chinese: 熊慶來; simplified Chinese: 熊庆来; pinyin: Xióng Qìnglái; Wade-Giles: Hsiung Ching-lai, October 20, 1893—February 3, 1969), courtesy name Youzhi (迪之), was a Chinese mathematician from Yunnan. He was the first person to introduce modern mathematics into China, and served as an influential president of Yunnan University from 1937 through 1947. A Chinese stamp was issued in his honour.
Xiong studied in Europe for eight years (1913 to 1921) before returning to China to teach. During that time, Chinese university-level mathematics was only comparable to Western secondary-school mathematics level. Xiong, beginning in 1921, undertook the task of writing more than ten textbooks on geometry, calculus, differential equations, mechanics, etc. It was the first endeavor in history to introduce modern mathematics in Chinese textbooks. In 1926, Xiong became a professor of mathematics at Tsinghua University, where he influenced the path of Hua Luogeng, who later became another prominent mathematician.
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