Kai Lai Chung Papers 1933-2004 1946-2004

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Kai Lai Chung Papers 1933-2004 1946-2004

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/chung.htm

Correspondence, journal and notebooks of mathematician Kai Lai Chung.

1.75 Linear feet; 3 boxes

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Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Chung, Kai Lai, 1917-2009

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Chung was born in Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province of China in 1917. He entered Tsinghua University in 1936 to study physics. He later attended the National Southwestern Associated University where he earned a degree in mathematics. He studied number theory with Lo Keng Hua and probability theory with Pao Lu Hsu. Chung did his doctoral work at Princeton University. His dissertation, "On the maximum partial sum of sequences of independent random variables" was completed in 1947. Chung t...