Lam Lay Yong

Tan Kah Kee (grandfather); Lee Kong Chian (uncle)

University of Malaya (1957); Ph.D. Degree, University of Singapore (1966)

Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Nat'l University of Singapore (1988 - 1996); Associate editor of Historia Mathematica (1974 - 1990)

"On the Chinese Origin of the Galley Method of Arithmetical Division", The British Journal for the History of Science, Cambridge University Press (1966); A Critical Study of the Yang Hui Suan Fa, Nat'l University of Singapore Press (1977); "Methods of solving linear equations in traditional China", Historia Mathematica (1989); Fleeting Footsteps. Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China, World Scientific (2004)

Kenneth O. May Medal 21st. Int'l Congress on History of Science (Ancient Chinese Mathematics and its influence on World Mathematics), Mexico City Jul. 2001; Outstanding Science Alumni Award, Nat'l University of Singapore 2005

Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences; Former President of the Singapore Mathematical Society

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