摘要
This special issue on Analytic Number Theory is dedicated to Jing-run Chen's Theorem(1+2)on the Goldbach Conjecture,the proof of which was first published in SCIENCE CHINA Mathematics exactly 50 years ago.Jing-run Chen was born on May 22,1933 in Fujian province,China.In 1953,he graduated from Xiamen University with a B.Sc.degree in Mathematics.