胡和生1928—2024

生平

1945年至1948年在交通大学数学系学习，1950年初毕业于大夏大学（今华东师范大学）数理系。1952年浙江大学数学系研究生毕业，师从苏步青教授。毕业后在复旦大学从教。丈夫谷超豪教授，亦为著名数学家，亦是中科院院士。胡和生主要研究领域为微分几何。

1991年，胡和生当选中国科学院院士，成为中国数学界第一位女院士。

2014年，在华东师范大学档案馆发现了胡和生的毕业证书，当时因抗日战争而未被领取。

2024年2月2日于上海去世。

荣誉

2002年国际数学家大会上授予诺特讲席（Noether Lecturer），为女数学家所能获得的莫大荣誉。胡和生教授是中国科学院数理学部的资深院士。

Hu Hesheng (Chinese: 胡和生; pinyin: Hú Héshēng; 20 June 1928 – 2 February 2024) was a Chinese mathematician. She served as vice-president of Chinese Mathematical Society, president of the Shanghai Mathematical Society, and was an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She gave the Noether Lecture in 2002.

Education and career

Born in Shanghai, Hu studied mathematics at National Chiao Tung University (now Shanghai Jiaotong University) and Great China University. She received her master's degree in mathematics from Zhejiang University in 1952, under the supervision of Su Buqing. From 1952 to 1956, she was a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1956, she began working as a lecturer at Fudan University in Shanghai, later becoming an associate professor and eventually achieving full-time professorship.

Service and recognition

Hu served as vice president of the Chinese Mathematical Society and president of the Shanghai Mathematical Society. In 2002, she was chosen as the Emmy Noether Lecturer for that year's International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China. She was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and as an academician of the Third World Academy of Science in 2003.

Research

Her main academic interests were differential geometry and mathematical physics. She led a research group at Fudan University during the 1980s and 1990s.

Personal life and death

Hu's husband was Gu Chaohao, also a mathematician, who served as the president of University of Science and Technology of China. They were married until his death in 2012.

Hu Hesheng died on 2 February 2024, at the age of 95.