Lu Jiaxi (mathematician)

Lu Jiaxi
陆家羲
Born(1935-06-10)June 10, 1935
Shanghai, China
DiedOctober 31, 1983(1983-10-31) (aged 48)
NationalityChinese
Alma materNortheast Normal University
Known forProving the existence of large sets of disjoint Steiner triple systems for all orders larger than 7 (except possibly six values whose proof he left unfinished)
AwardsFirst Class Award of the State Natural Science Award (1987)
Special Class Award of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award (1985)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsCombinatorics
InstitutionsMiddle schools in Baotou

Lu Jiaxi (simplified Chinese: 陆家羲; traditional Chinese: 陸家羲; pinyin: Lù Jiāxī; 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.

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