Deceased
from Santa Barbara, CA
Ky Fan (, September 19, 1914 March 22, 2010) was an American mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
In mathematics, the Ky Fan inequality is an inequality involving the geometric mean and arithmetic mean of two sets of real numbers of the unit interval.
19 September 1914 • Hangzhou
Died:22 March 2010 • Santa Barbara, CA
Mathematician • 20th-century mathematician • 21st-century mathematician • Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholar
Company:Peking University • University of California, Santa Barbara • Wayne State University faculty • Northwestern University faculty
Position:Mathematician • Teaching Assistant
Peking University • University of Paris
Specialty:Director
Academic degree:Professor
Area of science:Game theory • Calculus • Mathematical economics
American of Chinese descent
Master status:Student
Skill:Convex