Jingrun Chen, Chinese mathematician (Fuzhou, Fujian Province 22 May 1933 – 19 March 1996)

Authored over 70 papers

Proved Chen’s theorem

On the representation of a large even integer as the sum of a prime and the product of at most two primes. J. Kexue Tongbao 17:385-6, 1966

Proved that every sufficiently large even number is the sum of a prime and a number with at most 2 prime factors (1973)

Eponym of Chen primes

HONORS

Asteroid 7681 Chenjingrun