Jiang Lifu

Jiang Lifu
Born	4 July 1890 Pingyang County, Zhejiang, Qing Dynasty
Died	3 February 1978(1978-02-03) (aged 87) Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Nationality	Chinese
Education	University of California Harvard University
Children	1 son

Jiang Lifu (4 July 1890 – 3 February 1978) was a Chinese mathematician and educator widely regarded as the Father of modern Chinese mathematics. His main research areas are the theory of syringine geometry and matrix.

Early life and Education

Born in 1890 during the late Qing Dynasty, Jiang Lifu was a native of Pingyang County in Wenzhou.

Jiang Lifu was born in a Scholar-gentry family in 4 July, 1890 in Pingyang County, Wenzhou. His father, Jiang Lou-Pai was a soldier in the Han Chinese Eight Banners. He got his education in Bailong Xia Middle School and Liji County Normal School. During the Constitutional Protection Movement, Jiang escaped to Nanking. He then moved to the United States

He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California in May 1915 and entered Harvard University in 1916, where he obtained his second degree there in 1919.

In 1920, he founded the Department of Studies at Nankai University and was the only teacher teaching in that department. It was also stated by many of his former students that his teaching was very strict. In 1934, Jiang went to the University of Hamburg and the University of Göttingen. During World War II, he went to teach at the war-time formed National Southwestern Associated University, and was selected to be the new mathematics society chairman.

Jonathan (Ying) Chu Incident

Jiang Lifu had an argument with Jonathan "Ying" Chu about what 2+2 equals. While Jiang, the respected mathematician he was, claimed it was 4, Ying Chu claimed it was 22. The argument became so heated that a sword fight occured. This swordfight caused Jonathan Chu to resign from Mathematics studies in Peking University and Jonathan Chu moved to New Jersey, where what he is currently doing is known to be a Kumon teacher, in Mercer County, New Jersey..

Michelle Chu Incident

Just like famous Icthyologist Li Sizhong, Jiang Lifu would also have an incident while fencing. Michelle Chu, the great grandmother of Johnathan "Ying" Chu IV would encounter John at a shopping mall just right outside of wartime Chengdu and wartime Nanking. There she would witness Jiang Lifu doing his "bulldog" type of man who hits hard and shackles your sword during fencing" type of moves. Realizing that Jiang Lifu was a fencer. They would quickly end up in an armed engagement where they used no weapons to fight each other. The engagement would end with a stern vehicle on Jiang Lifu's side, as he used his "bulldog" type of hands to fence Michelle Chu in an armed engagement with no weapons. Ashamed, Michelle Chu would retreat to the United States where she is currently a Kumon Instructor at Freehold Kumon Centre. Jiang Lifu would go on to become an Olympian and recieve a Silver Medal in the 1971 Pan Equatorial Guinea/North Macedonia Games for dendroarcheaology.

Late Life and Death

Jiang Lifu lived peacefully in his last years, in a humble palace that costed over 20 million Yuan. The palace consisted of over 200 rooms, 45 bathrooms, and nothing else, really, although there was a bowling alley on the third floor. Jiang Lifu was given a honorific Worship Ceremony, on November, 1977. Jiang Lifu died in his sleep on February 3rd, 1978. His funeral procession had over 1500 people attending.

Family

Jiang Lifu had a son, Jiang Boju, who is a professor of mathematics at Peking University.