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Sun Guangyuan (simplified Chinese: 孙光远; traditional Chinese: 孫光遠; pinyin: Sūn Guāngyuǎn; Wade–Giles: Sun Kuang-yüan, 1900–1979), also known as Sun Tang (孫鎕), was a Chinese mathematician.

He studied projective geometry under Ernest Preston Lane at the University of Chicago. Later Sun became a professor in Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Sun used Ernest Julius Wilczynski's expression of a ruled surface given via two linear homogeneous differential equations in a 1927 publication.

References

1. Dan Sun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
2. Dan Sun (1927,8) "Osculating derivative of a ruled surface", Annals of Mathematics 29(1-4): 95–105

• 1900 births
• 1979 deaths
• 20th-century Chinese mathematicians
• Mathematicians from Zhejiang
• Chinese geometers
• Academic staff of Tsinghua University
• Academic staff of the National Central University
• Academic staff of Nanjing University
• Scientists from Hangzhou
• Educators from Hangzhou