Zhida Yan, Chinese mathematician (Nantong, Jiangsu Province 08 November 1917 – Tianjin 30 April 1999)

With D. Wu simplified and developed the classical principle of meshing gears

Initiated the idea of relative differentiation  

With D. Zhang. A method of classification of real irreducible representations of semi-simple Lie algebras. Science Chin. 25(1):14-24, 1982

Eponym of Yan canonical forms and Yan diagrams

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Multi-soliton solutions of coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Chin. Phys. Lett. 4(4), 1987

The spectrum of rank one compact symmetric spaces (1980)

Sulla formula principle cinemática de lo spazio ad n dimensioni. Boll. Um. Math. Ital. 2:434, 1970

A classification of real semisimple Lie algebras. Adv. Math. China 9:349, 1966

Sur l’isomorphisme d’un espace local symétrique associé. Sci. Sinica 17:145, 1966

With Q.Y. Zhang. The characteristic diagram of a semisimple Lie algebra. II. Acta Mat. Sinica 15:861-72, 1965

Sur les espaces symetriques non compacts. Scien. Sinica 15:31-8, 1965

Sur la sous-algébres réguliére de Lie semi-simple recue non-compact. Sci Sinica 14:917, 1965

Sur la connexion projective normale associeé à un feuilletage au 2 en order. Ann. Math. 34:5594, 1953

Sur la connexion projective normale associeé a un systeme de varieties à dimensions. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 228:1844-6, 1949

Sur les representations lineaires des certains groups et les nombres de Betti de espaces homogenes symetriques. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 228:1367-9, 1949

Sur les polynomes de Poincaré des groups de Lie exceptionels. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 228:628-30, 1949

Sur l’equivalence des forms differentials exterieures quadratiques à 4 variables. C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 227:1203-4, 1948

On matrices whose associated matrices are equal. Acad. Sinica Sci. Rec. 1:87-90, 1942