Biography Kai-Tai Fang

professor pao-lu hsu @ peking university supervised kai-tai fang s dissertation, manuscript wrote in 2 weeks had wait 19 years published because of cultural revolution.

fang s life described in agnes loie in volume published on 65th birthday. kai-tai fang born in 1940 in taizhou in province of jiangsu in china. graduated jiangsu s yangzhou high school.

university studies , cultural revolution

fang designed experiments improve qingdao beer in 1972.

in 1957 studied mathematics @ peking university, after entered graduate program @ institute of mathematics of academia sinica, renamed chinese academy of sciences, in beijing. doctoral supervisor professor pao-lu hsu (许宝騄), suggested fang provide multivariate generalization , correction of univariate result, had been given incomplete proof in russian paper. 2 weeks work, fang s submitted extensions, declared hsu suffice dissertation. unfortunately, paper remained unpublished 19 years because cultural revolution destroyed academic publishing in china. fang reported studies halted ten years of cultural revolution, lasted 1966 1976.

after graduating peking university, undertook postgraduate studies @ institute of mathematics of academia sinica, had less political chaos peking university, according fang. there, postgraduate researcher, fang supervised minyi yue. in 1965, assigned shan steel , iron company, gave lectures engineers , worked on nonlinear regression, before being sent rural village work laborer rest of 1965 , 1966. in 1972 fang , other staff @ academy of sciences promoted use of experimental design improve qindao (tsingtao) beer.

revival of academic life

fang successively appointed assistant researcher , assistant professor in 1978. joined institute of applied mathematics @ academia sinica (chinese academy of sciences), , became associate professor in 1980 , associate director of institute in 1984. appointed full professor in 1986.