Su Buqing

• Su Buqing is from Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a famous Chinese mathematician, educator, and founder of the Chinese School of Differential Geometry. He is known as "the brilliant mathematical star in the Eastern countries", "the first geometer in the East", and the "King of Mathematics". He graduated from the Department of Mathematics of Tohoku Imperial University in Japan in 1927 and received a doctorate in science from the same school in 1931. In 1948, he was elected as an academician of Academia Sinica. In 1978, he served as president of Fudan University, director of the Institute of Mathematics, and honorary president and professor of Fudan University.