Hu Hesheng

Hu Hesheng (1928-): A mathematician born in Shanghai (ancestral home in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). She obtained the master's degree from the Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University in 1952. She is the professor at Fudan University. In 2002, She became a member of the World Academy of Sciences. In 2002, she was an invited speaker for Noether Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians. In 1991, she became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

She has long been engaged in differential geometry research. In her early years, she conducted research on the deformation theory of hypersurfaces, the characteristics of constant curvature spaces, etc., developed and improved the work of the famous mathematicians including EIie Joseph Cartan. She proposed a general method for determining the voidness of the Riemannian space motion group, which helped solve an important problem that lasted for more than 60 years. She also made significant breakthrough in the problems of the existence of the quality gauge field, the clumping phenomenon and the determination of the spherically symmetric gauge potential. In the study of linear congruence theory, Toda equation and harmonic mapping, she developed the geometric theory of solitons.