Knowledge is power.

Outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, outstanding leader of the China Democratic League, outstanding scientist, educator and social activist, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Comrade Hua Luogeng, Vice Chairman of the National Committee, member of the Presidium and Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Vice Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, died of a heart attack in Tokyo, Japan, on the evening of June 12, 1985. Seventy-four years old. The death of Comrade Hua Luogeng is a major loss for our party and people in the cause of science and technology. People across the country are deeply saddened by the loss of a great scientist.

Comrade Hua Luogeng was born on November 12, 1910, in a family of urban poor in Jintan County, Jiangsu Province. In 1924, he graduated from Jintan County Middle School and entered Shanghai Zhonghua Vocational School. Due to family poverty, he left school a year later and worked as an apprentice in a small grocery store run by his father. During this period, he used his spare time to teach himself mathematics. In 1929, he worked as a general accountant at Jintan Middle School and began to publish papers in the Shanghai Science magazine. His paper "The reason why Su Jiaju's algebraic quintic equation solution cannot be established" attracted the attention of Professor Xiong Qinglai, chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Tsinghua University. Recommended by Professor Xiong, he went to work at Tsinghua University in 1931. It only took him eight years to go from being an administrator, teaching assistant, and lecturer to studying at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. In 1938, he was appointed as a professor at the Southwest Associated University in Kunming. Under extremely difficult living conditions, he taught during the day and worked tirelessly on research under a vegetable oil lamp at night, and wrote the famous book "Treatise on Duilei Su". However, under the rule of the Kuomintang, this masterpiece could not be published and had to be sent abroad for publication. It was not until after liberation that the Chinese version was officially released in our country. In the autumn of 1946, forced by the White Terror, he left the United States and served successively as a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a tenured professor at the University of Illinois. In 1950, Comrade Hua Luogeng responded to the call of the motherland and resolutely returned to Beijing from the United States. He successively served as a professor at Tsinghua University, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chairman of the Chinese Mathematical Society, member and deputy director of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor of Science and Technology of China. Director and Vice President of the University Mathematics Department, Director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and President of the China Association for Optimization, Coordination and Economic Mathematics. He devoted his whole life to developing the scientific undertakings of his motherland, especially mathematics research.

Comrade Hua Luogeng is a contemporary self-taught scientific master and a well-known mathematician at home and abroad. He is the founder and pioneer of research in many aspects such as analytic number theory, canonical groups, matrix geometry, automorphic function theory and multi-complex variable function theory in China. His famous academic paper "Theory of Functions of Multivariable Complex Variables in Typical Fields" was awarded the First Prize in Science in my country in 1957 due to his pioneering work in the field of mathematics by applying methods that had not been used by predecessors. award. His research results have been named "Fahrenheit's Theorem", "Brouwer-Gardan-Hua Theorem", and "Hua-Wang (Yuan) Method" by the international mathematical community. Comrade Hua Luogeng left us 200 academic papers and ten monographs in his lifetime, eight of which were translated and published abroad, some of which have been included in the mathematical classics of this century. He has also written more than ten popular science works. Due to his outstanding achievements in scientific research, he has been elected as a foreign academician of the United States Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Third World Academy of Sciences, an honorary doctorate from the University of Nancy in France, the University of Illinois in the United States, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an academician of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Federal Germany. His name has been recorded in the annals of internationally renowned scientists. Comrade Hua Luogeng is the pride of the Chinese scientific community, the pride of the Chinese nation, and the pride of one billion Chinese people.

Comrade Hua Luogeng is also the earliest scientist in my country who has made great contributions by closely integrating mathematical theoretical research and production practice. Since the late 1950s, he has stepped out of his study and classroom into the vast industrial and agricultural production practice. He creatively applied mathematical methods to the field of national economy, and screened out the "optimization method" whose content is to improve production processes and improve quality, and the "overall method" (referred to as "double method") that deals with production organization and management issues. He also wrote two popular science books in simple and easy-to-understand language, "Preferred Fa Hu Hua and Its Supplements" and "Coordinated Fa Ping Hua and its Supplements". For more than 20 years, Comrade Hua Luogeng has traveled to 26 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country to promote the "double law".

He organized and led a large number of workers, farmers, soldiers and engineering and technical personnel to participate in the promotion of the "dual method", so that the "double method" was popularized and promoted on a large scale, and even applied to the research of national key construction projects, not only to save energy, but also to increase It has achieved significant economic benefits by increasing output, reducing consumption, and shortening the construction period, and has also cultivated a scientific and technological team that serves the national economy. Comrade Mao Zedong spoke highly of Comrade Hua Luogeng's scientific innovation and wrote to Comrade Hua Luogeng twice in 1964 and 1965, "Congratulations and encouragement on his "lofty ambitions, which is gratifying."" “Work hard and serve the people, not for individuals. "During the ten years of turmoil, when Comrade Hua Luogeng was persecuted by the counter-revolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing, Comrade Zhou Enlai stood up with fearless spirit to protect Comrade Hua Luogeng and supported him in continuing to engage in research and promotion of "dual laws." Comrade Hu Yaobang 19 In 1982, he wrote a letter to Comrade Hua Luogeng, fully affirming his application of mathematical theory to production practice, and calling on "more comrades to join the ranks of new technologies and new processes to tackle key problems, thereby pushing forward my country's four modernizations." ", Comrade Hua Luogeng jointly built China's "Tower of Babel".

Comrade Hua Luogeng is a Chinese intellectual who has experienced two different eras, the old and the new, and transformed from a patriot to a communist fighter. In his early years, he participated in the anti-Japanese democratic patriotic movement led by the Communist Party of China. He was a close friend of martyrs Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo. In the spring of 1946, he was invited to visit the Soviet Union and wrote "Visit to the Soviet Union III." "Monthly Diary" expressed his yearning for socialism. The birth of New China further inspired his patriotic enthusiasm. He saw that "the motherland has dawned", gave up the generous treatment of a tenured professor in the United States, broke through the blockade, and returned to China. On the ship crossing the Pacific, he wrote to his classmates in the United States: "In order to choose the truth, we should go back; for the sake of the country and the nation, we should go back; to serve the people, we should also go back...for the sake of our great motherland. Strive for construction and development!" He is patriotic, not afraid of danger, and has a pure heart. He is praised by the broad masses of the people and all patriotic intellectuals. In his long-term scientific research work, Comrade Hua Luogeng especially in the field of combining scientific research with production practice In the process, he worked hard to study Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought, improved his ideological and political consciousness, and strongly demanded to join the Communist Party of China to fight for the cause of communism. During the ten years of turmoil, he did not suffer from adversity. Shaken his faith in the party. Since the chaos was restored, he sincerely supported the line, principles and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1979, he was in a happy mood and in high spirits under the cordial care of the Party Central Committee. He unexpectedly joined the Communist Party of China and realized his long-cherished wish. In reply to Comrade Deng Yingchao's congratulations, he wrote excitedly: "If you don't donate a drop of water in the sea, the sand in the furnace will be transformed into gold, and the four will become a leading soldier." Regardless of the white head, the leaping horse is close to the young and strong people, and he lives up to the name of a party member"; it fully demonstrates the firm belief and noble sentiments of a communist fighter. He regards joining the party as a new starting point for his way forward, and has stricter requirements Regardless of his old age, frailty and illness, with amazing perseverance, after three years of hard work, he finally recollected the manuscripts stolen during the ten years of catastrophe and wrote "Mathematical Theory of Large-scale Optimization of Planned Economy", which not only fully described

Comrade Hua Luogeng is also a famous social activist. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the 1st to 6th National People's Congress, Vice Chairman of the 6th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Vice Chairman of the China Democratic League. He cares about national affairs, actively participates in national political life, and provides suggestions for economic construction and the development of science, culture and education. He actively participates in the activities of the Democratic League and expands the patriotic united front for the development of the Democratic League. and made important contributions to the reunification of the motherland. In recent years, he has visited many countries abroad and made many friends. He has been engaged in the work of unification and unity among Chinese intellectuals. He often inspires overseas Chinese to contribute to the construction of the four modernizations of the motherland with the poem "If you have friends overseas, you will be neighbors even as far as the end of the world." and contributed to the realization of the third Kuomintang cooperation, completed the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, and made valuable contributions to strengthening friendly cooperation and scientific and cultural exchanges between our country and the people of other countries. Comrade Hua Luogeng is a great mathematician who promoted the advancement of my country's scientific cause and is a model for a generation of self-taught talents in the Chinese nation. Comrade Hua Luogeng's life was a life of glory, fighting, and serving the people. In order to revitalize China and human progress, he devoted his life to the people's scientific cause. The path he took is, first, a bright road for our country’s intellectuals to advance in this century.

Comrade Hua Luogeng added new wealth to the scientific and cultural treasure house of our country and the world, and also left us a rich spiritual legacy. He is a role model for our people, especially the young generation. Comrade Hua Luogeng is self-taught, diligent and realistic, courageous in pioneering and always moving forward. He had gone to school for nine years and only had a junior high school diploma. In the end, he became an outstanding scientist with great reputation at home and abroad. He succeeded entirely through hard work and self-study. Even in his later years, when his reputation and status in the academic world were already very high, he still kept reading and writing tenaciously. He has never been superstitious about genius and believes: "Genius comes from accumulation, and intelligence comes from hard work." He put forward the famous saying "A tree is easy to be empty when it is old, and a person is easy to be loose when it is old. The scientific way is to avoid being empty and to avoid being loose. I am willing to stick to reality all my life" as a warning to himself. Until shortly before his death, he still wrote: "Only when you are gray will you realize that wisdom is dull. Work hard towards the future. Diligence is a good medicine to make up for your weakness. Every minute of hard work is worth a minute of talent." This is the secret of Comrade Hua Luogeng's success.

Comrade Hua Luogeng loves the motherland and the party and serves the people wholeheartedly. He often said: "Science has no national borders, but scientists have their own motherland." His love for the socialist motherland and his love for the party are organically linked. As long as the party needs it, he is willing to go to any trouble to make a fuss. He took "Serving the people wholeheartedly" as his motto, which he used to measure all right and wrong. He integrated his thoughts, actions, pursuits, and ideals into the highest interests of the motherland, the party, and the people, and was worthy of being a communist with high moral character. Comrade Hua Luogeng carefully supports the younger generation to thrive. He pays great attention to identifying and recommending top talents who stand out. He is the founder and organizer of mathematics competitions among middle school students in New China. He guides young people to love science from an early age, enter the field of mathematics research, and supports them to become a new generation of mathematicians in our country. Comrade Hua Luogeng fought tenaciously and fought for the four modernizations until his last breath. Ten years ago, Comrade Hua Luogeng suffered from myocardial infarction for the first time. After he was discharged from the hospital, he left this poem: "A strong man fights to the death, regardless of the few scars. Fight against the thousand-year-old demon, fight for the new style of EMI, and give yourself generously!" "In the autumn of 1982, he suffered from myocardial infarction for the second time and was admitted to the hospital due to overwork from writing day and night. From his hospital bed, he earnestly asked his assistants to stick to the direction of serving the national economy and promote the development of applied mathematics in solving practical problems. On June 3 this year, he led a group of middle-aged business leaders to Japan for academic exchanges. On the afternoon of the 12th, at the rostrum where he was giving an academic report to the Japanese mathematics community, when he was speaking the last words of King Jin, he suffered a heart attack and died unfortunately. Our beloved Comrade Hua Luogeng sacrificed his precious life for the construction of the four modernizations of the motherland and for strengthening the friendly cooperation between the people and people in the scientific and technological circles of China and Japan. He realized his "greatest hope is to work until the last moment of his life" as * A magnificent oath to fight for the cause of communism for life. Comrade Hua Luogeng bids farewell to us forever, but Hua Luogeng’s spirit will last forever.