{{Short description|Chinese mathematician}} {{Family name hatnote|Gu|lang=Chinese}} {{Infobox scientist | image = GuChao hao 1959.jpg | caption = Gu in 1959 | name = Gu Chaohao | native_name = 谷超豪 | native_name_lang = zh | birth_name = | other_names = | birth_date = {{birth date |1926|5|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Republic of China | death_date = {{death date and age |2012|6|24|1926|5|15|df=yes}} | death_place = Shanghai, People's Republic of China | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=it}}--> | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Chinese Academy of Sciences<br>University of Science and Technology of China | alma_mater = Zhejiang University<br>Moscow State University | awards = Highest Science and Technology Award (2009) | spouse = Hu Hesheng | partner = | children = | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | signature = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }} '''Gu Chaohao''' ({{zh|c=谷超豪|p=Gǔ Chāoháo|w=Ku Ch'aohao}}; May 15, 1926 – June 24, 2012) was a Chinese mathematician.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-06/24/content_15519892.htm |title=Mathematician Gu Chaohao dies at 87|publisher=chinadaily.com.cn |access-date=2012-06-24}}</ref> He graduated from National Chekiang University (Zhejiang University) in 1948, and received a doctorate in physics and mathematical science from Moscow University in 1959. He was primarily engaged in research on partial differential equations, differential geometry, solitons, and mathematical physics. He served as vice president of Fudan University and from 1988 to 1993 as president of the University of Science and Technology of China. In 1980, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.ad.cas.cn/Me/Di/Me/Me_DMP/ |title=Division of Mathematics and Physics---Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |publisher=english.ad.cas.cn |access-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707013540/http://english.ad.cas.cn/Me/Di/Me/Me_DMP/ |archive-date=2011-07-07 }}</ref> He received the Highest Science and Technology Award in 2009.
==Works== * Gu Chaohao, Hu H, Zhou Xixiang:Darboux Transformations in Integrable Systems 2005 Springer, {{ISBN|978-1-4020-3087-1}} * Gu Chaohao Ed:Soliton Theory and Its Applications, Springer {{ISBN|9780387571126}} * Differential Geometry and Differential Equations:Proceedings of a Symposium, Shanghai, 1985, Editors: M. Berger, Gu Chaohao, R.L. Bryant, Springer {{ISBN|9780387178493}} * Gu Chaohao, Li Ta-Tsien, Hu Hesheng:Differential Geometry and Related Topics, World Scientific Pub Co, Singapore {{ISBN|9789812381880}} * Gu Chaohao, Li Yishen Ed, Nonlinear Physics: Proceedings of the International Conference, Shanghai, Peoples Rep of China, April 24–30, 1989 Springer, {{ISBN|0387523898}}
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