12 Facts About Pao-Lu Hsu

Pao-Lu Hsu or Xu Baolu was a Chinese mathematician noted for his work in probability theory and statistics.

Pao-Lu Hsu was born in Beijing on September 1,1910, with his ancestral home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Pao-Lu Hsu graduated from Tsinghua University in 1933, majoring in mathematics.

In 1956, Dr Hsu was made Director of the first research institute for probability and statistics to be established in China.

Pao-Lu Hsu died in his home on the campus of Peking University on December 18,1970, from chronic tuberculosis.

Pao-Lu Hsu is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Academician of the Academy of Science of China.

Pao-Lu Hsu was an expert in operating matrix, manipulating characteristic functions and integral transformation.

Pao-Lu Hsu was a world-class statistician and is considered to be the founder of probability and statistics in China.

Pao-Lu Hsu influenced many students such as Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Erich Leo Lehmann, and Chung Kai-lai.

From 1938 to 1945, Pao-Lu Hsu published several papers at the forefront of the development of the theory of multivariate analysis.

Pao-Lu Hsu was an expert in manipulating characteristic functions, which he used as a tool in obtaining the distributions of certain random variables and in determining the limiting distribution of series of random variables.

Pao-Lu Hsu made contributions to this problem in his paper, "A general weak limit theorem for independent distributions", a manuscript mailed to Kai Lai Chung in 1947.