杨永芳教授(1908—1963年),原籍河北省安国县人,生于天津市,幼年丧失双亲,依赖族兄抚养成人。1926年毕业于天津同文书院(中日中学前身),学习刻苦,德才兼备,由学校选派,以庚子赔款公费赴日留学,考入东京高师学校数学系。1931年中业并考入仙台东北帝国大学数学系,1935年获理学学士学位归国,即任国立北平师范大学、 Professor Yang Yongfang (1908-1963), who was originally from Anguo County, Hebei Province, was born in Tianjin. He lost his parents in his childhood and relied on his eldest brother to raise children. In 1926, he graduated from Tianjin Tongwen College (predecessor of Chinese and Japanese secondary schools). He studied hard and has both ability and political integrity. He was selected by the school to go abroad to study in Gengzi for public money and was admitted to Mathematics Department of Tokyo Normal University. In 1931, he was admitted to the Department of Mathematics of the Imperial College of Northeast Sendai in 1931 and returned to China with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1935, serving as the National Peiping Normal University,