Hua Luogeng (1910-1985), a Chinese mathematician, was known for his work The Additive Theory of Prime Numbers, completed in the 1940’s. It was published in Russian in 1947 and translated into English by the American Mathematical Society in 1965.
Hua Luogeng was born on Nov. 12, 1910, in Jintan, Jiangsu Province. In his early years, he showed great talent in mathematics, which he studied on his own. In 1931, he began work as an assistant in Tsinghua University. In 1936, he went to study at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He returned to China in 1938 and became a professor at South-west Associated University. In 1950, he was appointed director of the mathematics department at Tsinghua University. In 1952, he was named the first director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1957, the Chinese Academy of Sciences awarded him the Natural Science Prize. He died on June 12, 1985.
