Xi-Ping Zhu
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| Chinese: | 朱熹平 |
| Pinyin: | Zhū Xī-píng |
| Wade-Giles: | Chu1 Hsi1-P`ing2 |
Zhu Xiping is a Professor of Mathematics at Zhongshan University. He collaborated with Cao Huaidong of Lehigh University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao-Zhu team was one of three teams formed for this purpose. The other teams were the Tian-Morgan team (Gang Tian of Princeton University and John Morgan of Columbia University) and the Kleiner-Lott team (Bruce Kleiner of Yale University and John Lott of the University of Michigan). Manifold Destiny, a controversial article in The New Yorker, put the events surrounding the paper by Cao and Zhu in a very negative light.
[edit] Award
In December 2004, Zhu won the Morningside Medal of Mathematics at the Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians (ICCM), a triennial congress hosted by institutions in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong on a rotating basis. According to ICCM[1], "Awardees (of the Morningside Medal) are selected by a panel of international renowned mathematicians with the aim to encourage outstanding mathematicians of Chinese descent in their pursuit of mathematical truth."
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
- Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu, "A Complete Proof of the Poincaré and Geometrization Conjectures - application of the Hamilton-Perelman theory of the Ricci flow", vol. 10, no. 2, p.165-492, Asian Journal of Mathematics, June 2006.
- Huai-Dong Cao and Xi-Ping Zhu, Hamilton-Perelman's Proof of the Poincaré Conjecture and the Geometrization Conjecture, a considerably revised version of the previous paper on the Cornell arxiv.
