Sun Zhiwei
Sun Zhiwei (or Chihwei Sun, depending on romanization, generally given as Zhi-Wei Sun in journals in English) (born 1965) Chinese mathematician and educator, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Modern Mathematics.
Born in Lianshui, China, Sun earned degrees in mathematics at Nanjing University and started teaching number theory
, combinatorics, logic and set theory soon after earning his Ph.D. in 1992. The next year he joined the American Mathematical Society. Since 1999, he supervises Ph.D. students at Nanjing.
Zhi-Wei’s twin brother Zhihong is also interested in mathematics; the two of them with Donald Dines Wall searched for counterexamples to Fermat’s last theorem prior to Andrew Wiles proving it in 1994. More recently, Zhi-Wei Sun has been researching sums of a prime number
to figurate numbers
.
In 1996, Sun co-authored with Andrew Granville a paper on “Values of Bernoulli polynomials
” for the Pacific Journal of Mathematics. Years before, Granville had co-authored with Erdős a paper “On the normal behavior of the iterates of some arithmetic functions
” in Progress in Mathematics, giving Sun Erdős number (http://planetmath.org/ErdHosNumber) 2.
| Title | Sun Zhiwei |
| Canonical name | SunZhiwei |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 18:04:12 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 18:04:12 |
| Owner | Mravinci (12996) |
| Last modified by | Mravinci (12996) |
| Numerical id | 5 |
| Author | Mravinci (12996) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A65 |
| Classification | msc 01A61 |
| Classification | msc 01A60 |
| Synonym | Chihwei Sun |
| Synonym | Sun Chihwei |
| Synonym | Sun Zhi-Wei |
| Synonym | Zhi-Wei Sun |