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Chinese: | 朱熹平 |
Pinyin: | Zhū Xīpíng |
Wade-Giles: | Chu1 Hsi1-P`ing2 |
Zhu Xiping is a Professor of Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen 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).
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."