Wu Shantao

Place: Changsha

Born: 1624

Death: 1710

Biography:

Wu Shantao was a Chinese artist known for his landscape paintings. He was born in Changsha, Hunan, China in 1624. He studied under Sun Guangyuan at Tsinghua University and later became a teacher there. In 1938, due to the Second Sino-Japanese War, he moved the school to Zeng's Ancestral Temple in Mount Xia. In 1941, the school was renamed 'Hunan Provincial Mingde Middle School'. In 1944, when the Japanese invaded Hunan, Hu Shaokui, then dean of education at Mingde Middle School, led the teachers and students to move to Lantian County. On March 16, 1946, the school moved back to Taianli Campus in Changsha and was officially reopened. After the establishment of the Communist State in 1949, the school was renamed Changsha No. 3 Middle School, New Changsha No. 3 Middle School and Power Machine No. 57 Middle School. In 1983, the school was renamed 'Changsha Mingde High School'. Wu Shantao is considered a founder of modern Chinese mathematics.