Ky Fan
| Ky Fan | |
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| Born |
September 19, 1914 Hangzhou |
| Died | March 22, 2010 (aged 95) Santa Barbara, California |
| Nationality | Chinese American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice René Fréchet |
| Doctoral students |
Charles Himmelberg Bor-Luh Lin Raimond Struble |
Ky Fan (樊
, September 19, 1914 – March 22, 2010) was an American mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Fan was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, China. His father named Fan Qi (樊琦, 1879—1947) and served for the district courts of Jinhua and Wenzhou. Ky Fan went to Jinhua with his father when he was eight years old, and studied at several middle schools in Zhejiang including the Jinhua High School (currently Jinhua No.1 Middle School), Hangzhou Zongwen High School (currently Hangzhou No.10 Middle School), and Wenzhou High School. Fan obtained his secondary diploma from the Jinhua High School.
Fan enrolled into Peking University Department of Mathematics in 1932, and received his B.S. degree from Peking University in 1936. Initially Fan wanted to study engineering, but eventually shifted to mathematics, largely because of the influence of his uncle Feng Zuxun (, 1880–1940; b. Hangzhou, d. Beijing), who was a renowned mathematician in China and the then Chair of the Department of Mathematics of Peking University. After graduation, Fan became a teaching assistant in the department.
Fan went to France in 1939 and received his D.Sc. degree from the University of Paris in 1941. Fan's doctoral advisor was M.R.Fréchet. Fan was a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
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