Tā tuīguǎng le yōuxuǎnfǎ, bāngzhù gōngchǎng tígāo shēngchǎn xiàolǜ.
He popularized optimization methods that helped factories improve efficiency.
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Left school at 15 after contracting typhoid (which left him with a permanent limp), but taught himself university math, published in Science Record, was invited to Tsinghua as a clerk, and eventually to Cambridge. Returned to China after 1949 and became its most visible mathematician, touring factories to teach 优选法 and 统筹法.
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Family name 华 takes the tone 'huà' (not 'huá') when used as a surname - contrast with 华人 (huárén, ethnic Chinese).
