Jun 10, 1935Shanghai, ChinaDied on 31 Oct 1983 (aged 48)Gemini
About Lu Jiaxi Mathematician
Lu Jiaxi (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Lù Jiaxi; June 10, 1935 – October 31, 1983) was a self-taught Chinese mathematician who made important contributions in combinatorial design theory.
He was a high school physics teacher in a remote city and worked in his spare time on the problem of large sets of disjoint Steiner triple systems.