Lam Lay Yong

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Lam Lay Yong (born Oon Lay Yong , born February 12, 1936 in Singapore ) is a Singaporean mathematician with Chinese roots.

Life

Lam comes from a dynasty of wealthy Chinese businessmen in Singapore. She is the granddaughter of the Singaporean businessman (head of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Singapore) Tan Kah Kee (1874–1961), who died in exile in Beijing because of his support for the communists under Mao Zedong , and niece of his son-in-law Lee Kong Chian (1893– 1967), one of Singapore's wealthiest businessmen in the 1950s and 1960s and founder of the Lee Foundation.

Lam studied at the National University of Singapore (NUS, then University of Malaya), where she graduated with top marks in mathematics in 1957 and then continued her studies at Cambridge University on a Queen's Scholarship . She then taught at the University of Singapore from 1960, where she received her doctorate in 1966 and was given a full professorship in 1988. In 1996 she retired.

Lam studied the history of Chinese mathematics and is an international authority in this area.

From 1974 to 1990 she was co-editor of Historia Mathematica . She is a member of the International Academy for the History of Sciences. In 2001 she received the Kenneth O. May Prize . In 2005 she received the NUS Outstanding Alumni Award.

Fonts

  • A Critical Study of the Yang Hui Suan Fa, a Thirteenth-Century Mathematical Treatise , National University of Singapore Press 1977.
  • Jiu Zhang Suanshu (Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art): An Overview , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 47, 1994, pp. 1-51.
  • Zhang Qiujian Suanjing (The Mathematical Classic of Zhang Qiujian): An Overview , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 50, 1997, pp. 201-240.
  • with Ang Tian Se: Fleeting Footsteps. Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China , World Scientific, Singapore, 1992, 2nd edition 2004
  • A Chinese Genesis, Rewriting the history of our numeral system , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 38, 1988, pp. 101-108
  • with Ang Tian-Se: Circle measurements in ancient China , Historia Mathematica, Volume 13, 1986, pp. 325-340.
  • with Shen Kangsheng: Mathematical problems on Surveying in Ancient China , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 36, 1986, pp. 1-20.
  • The geometrical basis of the ancient Chinese square-root method , Isis, Volume 61, 1970, pp. 92-102.
  • The conceptual origins of our numeral system and the symbolic form of algebra , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 36, 1986, pp. 183-195.
  • Linkages: exploring the similarities between the Chinese rod numeral system and our numeral system , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 37, 1987, pp. 365-392.
  • On the Chinese Origin of the Galley Method of Arithmetical Division , The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 3, 1966, pp. 66-69
  • The Development of Hindu-Arabic and Traditional Chinese Arithmetics , Chinese Science, Volume 13, 1996, pp. 35-54
  • with Shen Kangshen: Methods of solving linear equations in traditional China , Historia Mathematica, Volume 16, 1989, pp. 107-122
  • Arithmetic in Ancient China , Lam Pin Foo, October 3, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Lam Lay Yong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Singaporean mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore