My Mathematical Life

Preface.- Introduction.- Childhood.- High School.- University.- Connection with Number Theory.- Sieve.- Applied Mathematics Explored.- Lost Memories.- Back to Math.- Dabbling in Mathematical Statistics.- A Sip of Mathematics History.- When the Curtain Falls.

Prof. Yuan Wang graduated from the Mathematics Department, Zhejiang University, China in 1952, and since then he has been with the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), and was elected as an academician of the CAS in 1980. His research field is analytic number theory especially the Goldbach conjecture, Diophantine analysis, number theoretic method in numerical analysis and statistics, and has published twelve books and more than eighty papers. He is also the author of a biography of the legend Chinese mathematician Hua Loo-Keng and many popular mathematics works. He was formerly Director of the Institute of Mathematics of the CAS and President of the Chinese Mathematical Society.
Prof. Wenlin Li graduated from the Mathematics Department, China University of Science and Technology in 1965. He has been a researcher of the Institute of Mathematics, CAS since 1965, and became professor in 1989. His research field is history of mathematics, and published over seventy papers in leading periodicals and five books in Chinese. He was elected as a member in large of IMU for the International Commission of History of Mathematics (2002-2005).
Dr. Jing Yang received her Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Academy of Mathematics and System Science, CAS, Beijing, in 2006. Since July 2010, Dr. Yang has been in the Department of Basic Courses, Beijing Union University as an Associate Professor. Dr. Yang focuses on the research of history of modern mathematics. Dr. Yang has translated 3 books from English to Chinese.