Foreword

Professor Ta-Tsien Li was born on November 10, 1937, in Nantong,Jiangsu Province, China. He was graduated in 1957 from theDepartment of Mathematics, Fudan University, and has been itsfaculty member since then. His in-service graduate study as astudent of Professor Chao-Hao Gu at the university finished in 1966.At the invitation of Professor Jacques-Louis Lions, Professor Livisited the prestigious Collège de France, Paris, France, as avisiting scholar from January 1979 to April 1981. He was promoted tobe a Full Professor of Mathematics in 1980, became a Ph.D.Supervisor for Pure Mathematics in 1981 and Applied Mathematics in1983 respectively, and was appointed as the Dean of Graduate Schoolof Fudan University from 1991 to 1999. Professor Li was elected as aMember of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995, a Fellow of theThird World Academy of Sciences (the Academy of Sciences for theDeveloping World) in 1997, a Foreign Member of the French Academy ofSciences in 2005 and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences in2007.

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