Stories of Contemporary China’s Scientific and Technological Innovations:The Legend of Feng Kang

by NING Ken, TANG Tao

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Based on the growth and struggle of Feng Kang, the father of Chinese computational mathematics and the founder of finite element method theory, this book reproduces the tortuous and glorious life track of a great mathematician: from Hua Luogeng to take over the subject of computational mathematics, from basic mathematics research to scientific computing research. He is unique in important research fields and ranks among the leaders in the millennium history of computing with his original theory. The winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award, Mr. Ning Ken, the novelist, and the winner of the Feng Kang Award for Scientific Computing, and the mathematician Tang Tao, jointly created the creations to show the readers the epic heroes of science and technology in the fiery era at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and a mathematics amazing man worth remembering forever—Feng Kang.

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Ning Ken, born in Beijing in 1959, is a novelist, a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and a signed writer of the Beijing Writers Association. He has published five novels such as "Tian Zang", "Masked City" and "Three Trio". Winner of the 2nd and 4th Lao She Literary Award for Outstanding Novel. His work won the 7th Lu Xun Literary Award in 2018. He is currently the vice chairman of Beijing Writers Association. Tang Tao, born in Anhui in 1963, is a mathematician and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been engaged in computational mathematics research for a long time and has won the Feng Kang Scientific Computing Award, the first prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Award, and the second prize of the National Natural Science Award. Former Vice President of Southern University of Science and Technology, currently President of Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, and co-editor of "Mathematics Culture" journal.

Zhejiang Publishing United Group

Zhejiang Publishing United Group

More than 1,000 titles of books by Zhejiang Publishing United Group have been traded with over 100 foreign publishing houses including Bertelsmann, Pearson, Hachette, Larousse, Gallimard, MacMillan, Random, DK, Shogakukan Inc., Kodansha Inc., Simon & Schuster and other world-famous university publishing houses such as Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Zhejiang Education Publishing Group
  • Publication Date December 2019
  • ISBN/Identifier 9787553698496
  • FormatHardback
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language Title“创新报国84年”大型报告文学丛书·冯康传
  • Original Language Authors宁肯、汤涛

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