Jiang was born in 1890 in
Pingyang County in
Wenzhou and received his elementary education in
Wenzhou and high school education in
Hangzhou. Jiang received a Bachelor of Science degree in
mathematics from the
University of California, Berkeley in 1915 and entered
Harvard University in 1916 and obtained his PhD degree there in 1919. Jiang's doctoral advisor at
Harvard was
Julian Coolidge and his doctoral thesis was "The Geometry of Non-Euclidean Line Sphere Transformatinon". Upon receiving his doctoral degree, he became the second person in modern Chinese history to receive a PhD degree in
mathematics. In 1920, Jiang founded the department of mathematics at
Nankai University, the first-ever mathematics department of a private university and second-ever mathematics department of a university in modern Chinese history. In 1923, Jiang served as the chairman of the mathematical terminology review committee organized by the
Science Society of China and under his leadership, the committee published the first-ever systematic dictionary of mathematical terminology in modern
China. Jiang pursued and conducted advanced study and research at
University of Hamburg in 1934 and
University of Göttingen from 1935 to 1936. In 1940, during
World War II, Jiang was appointed as the chairman of the "Neo-China Mathematics Society" at the
National Southwestern Associated University. Jiang was also the chairman of the organizing committee of the Institute of Mathematics of
Academia Sinica in
China and served as the founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of
Academia Sinica in 1947. In 1948, Jiang was elected as an academician of the
Academia Sinica. == Legacy ==