Wang Yuan, born April 29, 1930 is a Chinese mathematician, educator and popular science writer

famous for his contributions to the Goldbach conjecture. He is a former president of the Chinese

Mathematical Society and head of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Research

Number theory
Wang's research focuses on the area of number theory, especially in the Goldbach conjecture, through sieve theory and the Hardy-Littlewood circle method. He obtained a series of important results in the field of number theory.

Numerical integration and statistics

With Hua Luogeng, he developed high-dimensional combinatorial designs for numerical integration on the unit cube. Their work came to the attention of the statistician Kai-Tai Fang, who realized that their results could be used in the design of experiments. In particular, their results could be used to investigate interaction, for example, in factorial experiments and response surface methodology. Collaborating with Fang led to uniform designs, which have been used also in computer simulations.

Books

Wang, Yuan (1991). Diophantine equations and inequalities in algebraic number fields. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58171-7. ISBN 9783642634895. OCLC 851809136.
Wang, Yuan (2005). Wang, Yuan, ed. Selected papers of Wang Yuan. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 9812561978. OCLC 717731203.
Fang, Kai-Tai; Wang, Yuan (1993). Number-theoretic methods in statistics. Chapman and Hall Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability. 51. CRC Press. ISBN 0412465205. OCLC 246555560.