Ky Fan was a Chinese-American mathematician widely regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians from China and one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.
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Ky Fan was a Chinese-American mathematician widely regarded as one of the most influential mathematicians from China and one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. Fan's mathematical achievements were unusually versatile and covered numerous areas of mathematics, including both linear and nonlinear analysis, from finite to infinite dimensions, and extends from pure to applied mathematics. He made fundamental contributions in nonlinear analysis, convex analysis and inequalities, fixed point theory, operator and matrix theory, linear and nonlinear programming, complex analysis, topology, and topological groups.
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