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Ding Xieping
Ding Xieping (; 16 April 1938 – 4 January 2020) was a Chinese mathematician and a professor at Sichuan Normal University. He served as Director of the Institute of Mathematics at the university. Biography Ding was born on 16 April 1938 in Zigong, Sichuan, Republic of China. After graduating from Sichuan University in 1961, he taught as an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematics of the former Chengdu University (now Southwestern University of Finance and Economics). In 1964, Ding transferred to Sichuan Normal University, where he taught until his retirement in 2010. He served as Director of the university's Institute of Mathematics. His research focus was nonlinear analysis and applications. Starting in 1979, he published more than 360 research papers, including 160 on Science Citation Index (SCI) journals. In 1999 and 2000, he was China's most prolific authors of papers on SCI journals in the field of mathematics. He was named a National Outstanding Scientist in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ding (surname)
Ding () is a Chinese family name. It consists of only 2 strokes. The only two characters that have fewer strokes are "一" and "乙". Distribution In 2019 it was the 48th most common surname in Mainland China. Origins There are four main hypothesized sources of Ding: *The earliest record of this surname in history was the Duke of Ding during the Shang Dynasty. *The name derived from the ancestral surname Jiang. Duke Ding of Qi was the second recorded ruler of the State of Qi. After his death, his descendants adopted his posthumous name Ding as their clan name in his honor. *During Spring and Autumn period, the descendants of Duke Ding of Song also used Ding as their last name. *During the Three Kingdoms period, a general, Sun Kuang of the Wu kingdom, accidentally burnt the food supply and as a punishment, the king Sun Quan ordered this general to change his last name to Ding; the king did not want to bear the same last name as the general. The Ding hometown is supposedly nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
