Xi-Ping Zhu

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.

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."

Notes

1. ^ The Third International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians | What is ICCM?

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.