Lo Yang - Böcker

The fourteenth issue of the Notices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians. Published semi-annually, the Notices bring news, research, and presentation of various perspectives, relevant to Chinese mathematics development and education.

The international symposium on number theory and analysis in memory of the late famous Chinese mathematician Prof. Hua Loo Keng was co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica and the University of Science and Technology of China. lt took place between August Ist and 7th of 1988 on the campus of Tsing Hua University, and some 150 mathematicians were pres- ent. The symposium was carried out in two separate sections: number theory and analysis. This is retlected in the publication ofa set oftwo volumes, the first one on Number Theory edited by Professor Wang Yuan and the second on Analysis by Professors Gong Sheng, Lu Qi-keng and Yang Lo. The distinguished list of main speakers and the contents of these two vol- umes reflect the high level of the mathematical activity throughout the seven days. W e pay special tribute to our main speakers professors Chuang, Conn, Ding, Drasin, Fitzgerald, Gaier, Gong, Grauert, Gu, Hejhal, Iyanaga, Karatsuba, Koranyi, Liao, Lu, Pan, Richert, Satake, Schmidt, Siu, Tatuzawa, Tsang, Vladimirov, Y. Wang, G. Y.Wang, Wustholz and Yang, who gave the excellent one hour lectures, and also to the participants who gave contributed talks on their own research work. The discussions among the mathematicians were always in a warm atmosphere. Our thanks go to professors Chern, Subbarao and Yau for their contributions to these proceedings.

This proceedings volume contains 55 research and expository articles on a wide range of currently active and interesting areas in pure and applied mathematics. The research articles report on the current research accomplishments and the significance of the results. Every expository article aims to make the subject interesting by including the state of the subject, description and motivation of the problems, the relevance of the results, and open problems for future research directions. This book serves as a good reference not only for researchers but also for graduate students.