Editing Chinese mathematics (section)

=== In modern China ===
Chinese mathematics experienced a great surge of revival following the establishment of a modern [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Chinese republic in 1912]]. Ever since then, modern Chinese mathematicians have made numerous achievements in various mathematical fields.

Some famous modern ethnic Chinese mathematicians include:

* [[Shiing-Shen Chern]] was widely regarded as a leader in [[geometry]] and one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century and was awarded the [[Wolf Prize]] for his contributions to mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chern biography |url=https://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Chern.html |access-date=2017-01-16 |website=www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=12.06.2004 - Renowned mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern, who revitalized the study of geometry, has died at 93 in Tianjin, China |url=https://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/12/06_chern.shtml |access-date=2017-01-16 |website=www.berkeley.edu}}</ref>
* [[Ky Fan]] made contributions to [[fixed point theory]], in addition to influencing nonlinear functional analysis, which have found wide application in mathematical economics and game theory, potential theory, calculus of variations, and differential equations.
* [[Shing-Tung Yau]], a [[Fields Medal]] laureate, has influenced both physics and mathematics, and he has been active at the interface between geometry and [[theoretical physics]] and subsequently awarded the  for his contributions.
* [[Terence Tao]], a [[Fields Medal]] laureate and  [[child prodigy]] of Chinese heritage, was the youngest participant in the history of the [[International Mathematical Olympiad]] at the age of 10, winning a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history.
* [[Yitang Zhang]], a [[number theorist]] who established the first finite bound on gaps between prime numbers.
* [[Chen Jingrun]], a [[number theorist]] who proved that every sufficiently large even number can be written as the sum of either two [[Prime number|primes]], or a prime and a [[semiprime]], which is now called [[Chen's theorem]].<ref>{{Cite journal |first=J. R. |last=Chen |year=1973 |title=On the representation of a larger even integer as the sum of a prime and the product of at most two primes |journal=Scientia Sinica |volume=16 |pages=157–176}}</ref> His work was important for research of [[Goldbach's conjecture]].