Professor Hoang Tuy has passed away.
According to information from his family, Professor Hoang Tuy, a prominent Vietnamese mathematician, passed away this afternoon, July 14th.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc presents flowers to congratulate Professor Hoang Tuy on his 90th birthday and honors him, a renowned Vietnamese and international mathematician known for his optimization algorithms (photo taken in 2017). Photo: VNA |
Along with Professor Le Van Thiem, he was one of the two pioneers in establishing the field of mathematics in Vietnam.
Professor Hoang Tuy is considered the father of the field of global optimization in applied mathematics.
Professor Hoang Tuy was not only a mathematician but also made many contributions to Vietnamese education. He was also the founder of the Institute for Development Studies (IDS), where he served as Chairman of the Board.
In March 1959, Professor Hoang Tuy became one of the first two Vietnamese to successfully defend their doctoral dissertation in mathematics and physics at Lomonosov University in Moscow.
From 1961 to 1968, he was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Hanoi University; and director of the Vietnam Institute of Mathematics from 1980 to 1989.
In 1964, he invented the "Tuy's cut" method, which is considered the first milestone marking the birth of a new branch of mathematics: global optimization theory.
In August 1997, on the occasion of Professor Hoang Tuy's 70th birthday, the Linköping Institute of Technology (Sweden) organized an international conference on the theme "Finding Optimal Solutions from Local to Global" to honor Professor Hoang Tuy, "who has made pioneering contributions in the field of global optimization and general mathematical programming".
In December 2007, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, an international conference on "Non-convex Optimization" was held in Rouen, France, to recognize Professor Hoang Tuy's pioneering contributions to this field in particular and to the field of Global Optimization in general.
Throughout the 21st century, Professor Hoang Tuy has written several articles offering frank criticisms and suggestions regarding the weaknesses, backwardness, and negative aspects of Vietnam's education system, and has also participated in numerous conferences and discussions on educational reform.
