Yang Le


Yang Le is a Chinese mathematician. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Biography

Yang was born and raised in Nantong, Jiangsu. His father, Yang Jingyuan, was a businessman and assistant manager of Nantong Tongming Electric Company. His mother was Zhou Jingjuan. He primarily studied at the First Affiliated Primary School of Nantong Normal College and secondary studied at Nantong Middle School of Jiangsu Province. He was accepted to Peking University in 1956 and graduated in 1962. After college, he studied mathematics under Xiong Qinglai. at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and started working there as a research scientist after the graduate program. He was elected a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980.

Personal life

Yang married Huang Qieyuan, who is Huang Wanli's daughter.