The Contribution to Combinatorial Design by Jiaxi Lu
Luo Jian-jin · Neimenggu Shi-da xuebao. Zhexue shehui kexue hanwen ban · 2010
Jiaxi Lu(1935-1983) was born in Shanghai.He became a mathematician of combinatorics by self-teaching.In 1961,he graduated from the department of physics in the North-East Normal University,and was assigned to Baotou Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering(later renamed as the Inner Mongolian Institute of Science and Technology) to be an assistant teacher.Later,he had been teaching physics successively in the Teaching-Research Office of Baotou Educational Bureau as well as some middle schools including No.8,No.5,No.24 and No.9,until he died in 1983.Since 1957,under very difficult circumstances,he had been devoting himself to some basic questions in block in the field of combinatorics,and proved the Theorem of large sets of disjoint Steiner triple systems,which had been pending for more than 130 years in the international circle of mathematic research.In 1989,he was rewarded the first prize of National Natural Science issued by the government of China,and the Inner Mongolian government conferred him posthumously the title of Super-fine Teacher.In 1984,his paper On the presence of resolvable balanced incomplete block design was published,which indicated that the related problems of Kirkman schoolgirl problem reached a new level.