Dr Khin Maung Win (; also known as Khin Maung Win (Math), 23 October 1940 – 3 August 2021) was a Burmese writer and retired math professor at the

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. He is notable for topics ranging from math teachings and literature and has written many mathematical books in his career. His math books were collected for all school libraries as part of a development project of Myanmar Education.

Early life and education

Khin Maung Win was born on 23 October 1940, in

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. He was the only son of prominent author

Khin Myo Chit Khin Myo Chit (, ; 1 May 1915 – 2 January 1999) was a Burmese author and journalist, whose career spanned over four decades. She began her career writing short stories in Burmese for ''Dagon Magazine'' in 1934. She worked on the editorial st ...

and her husband Khin Maung Lat, an author. He graduated with math General Honors BA (Gen. Hons.) in 1956 and MA (Math) in 1966 from

, and received PhD from the

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in 1970.

Personal life

Khin married Tatkatho Shwe Yi Win, an author, in 1967. They have twin children, Maung Yit and Junior Win, who is also an author.

Literary career

He is also an author and wrote under the pen name of Khin Maung Win (Math). He has written many books, articles, and

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on different topics ranging from math teachings and literature. Two times a week, he wrote English articles at Working People Daily newspaper from 1987 to 1988. Later in 1990, he wrote articles about his thoughts. Later, he has written articles at the new style, Paduck Pwint Thit and Cherry Magazines.

Publications

* ''သင်္ချာသစ်'' (စာပေဗိမာန်) 1986–1987 * ''အခြေခံသင်္ချာသစ်'' (လောကသစ်စာပေ) 1991 * ''ဂိမ်းသီအိုရီ'' (ဒေါင်းစာပေ) 2001 * ''သင်္ချာပညာတော်သင်ဘဝ'' (ဒေါင်းစာပေ) 2003 * ''ခေတ်သစ်သင်္ချာ'' (စိတ်ကူးချိုချို) 2003 * ''သင်္ချာဝေါဟာရ'' (မုံရွေးစာပေ) 2003 * ''အသက်ကိုဖန်တီးခြင်း'' (ဒေါင်းစာပေ) (တက္ကသိုလ်ရွှေရီဝင်းနှင့်တွဲ၍) 2003 * ''သင်္ချာအတွေးအခေါ်ဆောင်းပါးများ'' (ယူနတီ) (တက္ကသိုလ်ရွှေရီဝင်းနှင့်တွဲ၍) 2004 * ''ဖက်ဇီလောဂျစ်'' (မုံရွေး) 2004 * ''ကွန်ပြူတာသုံးသင်္ချာ'' (မြန်မာ society) 2004 * ''နဝမတန်းသင်္ချာအကြောင်းသိကောင်းစရာ'' (ယူနတီ) 2005 * ''သင်္ချာအဘိဓာန်'' (ဓူဝံစာပေ) (ဂျူနီယာဝင်း နှင့်တွဲ၍) 2005 * ''သင်္ချာမိတ်ဆက်'' (မုံရွှေး) 2005 * ''သင်္ချာဝေါဟာရ'' – ၂ (မုံရွေး) 2005 * ''ဒေးကားမိတ်ဆက်'' (မုံရွေး) ၂၀၀၆ * ''ပထမနှစ်သိပ္ပံ'' (အဝေးသင်) (စိတ်ကူးချိုချို) 2006 * ''၁ဝ တန်း သင်္ချာပုစ္ဆာများကို သရုပ်ခွဲလေ့လာနည်း'' (စိတ်ကူးချိုချို) 2006 * ''စကြာဝဠာ မိတ်ဆက်'' (မုံရွေး) (တက္ကသိုလ်ရွှေရီဝင်းနှင့်တွဲ၍) 2006 * ''ကမ္ဘာနှင့်အိမ်နီးချင်းဂြိုဟ်များ'' (မုံရွေး) 2007 (တက္ကသိုလ်ရွှေရီဝင်းနှင့်တွဲ၍) * ''ရောင်စုံလှစွာပြည်မြန်မာ'' (ပါရမီ) 2007 * ''ပညာအလင်းမိတ်ဆက်'' (မုံရွေး) 2007 * ''ခေတ်သစ်အတွက်ပညာရေး'' (မုံရွေး) 2008 * ''ပညာရှာခြင်းနှင့် မှတ်မိခြင်းမိတ်ဆက်'' (မုံရွေး) 2008

References

* Voice of America Tribute to Dr Khin Maung Win, Interview with Sayar Kyawe. Original Air Date : 25 July 2008. * Burmese Encyclopedia Vol 4, p-742 Printed 1980. {{authority control 1940 births 2021 deaths Burmese writers People from Yangon Region Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar