In the history of mathematics, Louise Zung-nyi Loh is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louise Zung-nyi Loh as Chinese mathematician, physicist and educator.
Louise Zung-nyi Loh was born in 1900. Her recorded nationality is People's Republic of China. She studied at Ginling College.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from People's Republic of China matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Louise Zung-nyi Loh died in 1981, aged 81. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
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