Lu Qikeng was born on May 15, 1927 in Foshan, Guangdong Province. He graduated in 1950 from the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy of Zhongshan University.
Since 1951 he worked in Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was promoted step by step from an assistant, assistant professor, associate professor to a full professor in 1977. He was elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980. From 1980 to 1983 he was the Deputy Director of the Institute of Mathematics and was entrusted by Director I. K. Hua to run the Institute.
Lu's works on several complex variables are mainly the joint work of Hua and Lu on “Theory of Harmonic Functions in Classical Domains” and Lu's papers about Schwarz lemma and analytic invariants, “On Complete Kaehler Manifolds with Constant Unitary Curvature” and “On Cauchy -Fantappie Formula". The last two papers were published in Chinese and sooner translated by some ones into English journal “Chinese Mathematics” of American Mathematical Society. A problem (whether the Berman kernel possesses zeroes) that rose from the first paper was called by some foreign mathematicians the “Lu Qikeng Conjecture” and was studied up today. The second paper was quoted many times in one of the Norquet seminars of University Paris VI.
Moreover, Lu wrote four books: “Introduction to Several Complex Variables” (1961), “Classical Manifolds and Classical Domains” (1963), “Differential Geometry and its Application to Physics” (1983) and “New Results of Classical Manifolds and Classical Domains” (1997). The first three books were written originally as lecture notes for courses of graduate students, some of which became good mathematicians later. The last book is a summery of the author's main works on several complex variables from 1963 to 1997.
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