AN UNREMITTING LIFE-LONG DEVOTION TO THE MOTHERLAND AND SCIENCE ——A Brief Profile of Mathematician Zhang Jingzhong

摘要

Prof. Zhang Jingzhong, a well-known Chinese mathematician, is now serving as the honorary director of the Chengdu Institute of Computer Application under the CAS and as an instructor for doctorate students.His outstanding attainments in the field of mathematics and computer science include his pioneering work of enriching theories and methods in mechanized demonstration,the concept of "educational mathematics" and his meritorious service as a prolific popular science writer. On December I.1936, Prof.Zhang was born in a teacher’s family in Runan County,Henan Province.After successfully passing an entrance examination in 1954,