1. Ky Fan was a Chinese-born American mathematician.
13 Facts About Ky Fan
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Ky Fan was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Ky Fan's father, named Fan Qi, served in the district courts of Jinhua and Wenzhou.
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Ky Fan went to Jinhua with his father when he was eight years old and studied at several middle schools in Zhejiang, including the Jinhua High School, Hangzhou Zongwen High School, and Wenzhou High School.
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Ky Fan obtained his secondary diploma from the Jinhua High School.
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Ky Fan was a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
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Ky Fan was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey from 1945 to 1947.
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In 1947, Ky Fan joined the mathematical faculty of the University of Notre Dame, where he was an assistant professor at the beginning, and later promoted to associate professor and full professor.
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In 1960, Ky Fan held a position at Wayne State University in Detroit for about one year, but immediately went to Northwestern University near Chicago.
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In 1965, Ky Fan became a professor of mathematics at UCSB.
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Ky Fan was elected an Academician of the Academia Sinica in 1964.
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Ky Fan served as the director of the Institute of Mathematics there from 1978 to 1984.
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The author of approximately 130 papers, Ky Fan made fundamental contributions to operator and matrix theory, convex analysis and inequalities, linear and nonlinear programming, topology and fixed point theory, and topological groups.