Chinese mathematicianIn this Chinese name, the family name is Sun.

Sun Zhiwei (Chinese: 孙智伟; pinyin: Sūn Zhìwěi; Wade–Giles: Sun Chih-wei, born October 16, 1965) is a Chinese mathematician, working primarily in number theory, combinatorics, and group theory. He is a professor at Nanjing University.

Biography

Sun Zhiwei was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu. Sun and his twin brother Sun Zhihong proved a theorem about what are now known as the Wall–Sun–Sun primes.

Sun proved Sun's curious iden*y in 2002. In 2003, he presented a unified approach to three topics of Paul Erdős in combinatorial number theory: covering systems, restricted sumsets, and zero-sum problems or EGZ Theorem.

With Stephen Redmond, he posed the Redmond–Sun conjecture in 2006.

In 2013, he published a paper containing many conjectures on primes, one of which states that for any positive integer m {displaystyle m} there are consecutive primes p k , … , p n   ( k < n ) {displaystyle p_{k},ldots ,p_{n} (k<n)} not exceeding 2 m + 2.2 m {displaystyle 2m+2.2{sqrt {m}}} such that m = p n − p n − 1 + . . . + ( − 1 ) n − k p k {displaystyle m=p_{n}-p_{n-1}+...+(-1)^{n-k}p_{k}} , where p j {displaystyle p_{j}} denotes the j {displaystyle j} -th prime.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory.

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External links

• Zhi-Wei Sun's homepage