Yang Le

Yang Le (; 10 November 1939 – 22 October 2023) was a Chinese mathematician. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Yang was born and raised in Nantong, Jiangsu. His father, Yang Jingyuan, was a businessman and assistant manager of Nantong Tongming Electric Company. His mother was named Zhou Jingjuan. He primarily studied at the First Affiliated Primary School of Nantong Normal College and studied secondary at Nantong Middle School of Jiangsu Province. He was accepted to Peking University in 1956 and graduated in 1962. After college, he studied mathematics under Xiong Qinglai at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and started working there as a research scientist after the graduate program. He was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. Personal life Yang married Huang Qieyuan, who is Huang Wanli's daughter. Yang Le died in Beijing on 22 October 2023, at the age of 83. References