Chinese Mathematics into the 21st Century

In 1988 a conference on CHINESE MATHEMATICS INTO THE 21st
CENTURY was held in Nankai. The proceedings that resulted
from this conference aim at presenting a comprehensive
picture of Chinese mathematics' most current developments
and future research directions. The advances being made by
Chinese mathematicians both inside and outside China are
impressivelydocumented in this unique state-of-the-art
report. Excellent survey lecturesand research papers
present the most important feature of this volume and permit
the reader to gain an insight into Chinese Mathematics at
its best.This volume may serve as a compact reference work
to recent advances onsuch fields as dynamical systems,
mechanics, nonlinear analysis, complex geometry, complexity
theory, nonlinear programming and algebraic geometry toname
but a few.
Special mention deserve the following articles that willbe
of particular interest to the reader: Liao Shantao: Ob-
struction Sets, Minimal Rambling Sets and Their Applications
; Wu Wen-tsun: A Survey of Developments of Mathematics
Mechanization in China; Chang Kung-ching: Critical Groups,
Morse Theory and Application to Semilinear Elliptic BVPs;
Gang Tian: Some Notes on K{hler-Einstein Metrics with
Positive Scalar Curvature; Ming Li/Paul M.B. Vitanyi: A
Brief Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its
Applications; Xiang-Yun Gui/Ding-Zhu Du: A Tale of Gradient
Projection Methods in Nonlinear Programming; Lan Wen: The C1
Closing Lemma of 2-dimensional Non-singular Endomorphisms;
De-Qi Zhan: Non-complete Algebraic Surfaces; Xionghua
Wu/Youlan Zhu: Using the Singularity-Separating Method to
Study How to Decrease the Pressure at the End of a Tube;Chen
Shuxing: Study on Reflection of Shock Waves.