Background
Shou-Wu Zhang was born in Hexian, Ma"anshan, Anhui, China on October 9, 1962.
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Education
Shou-Wu Zhang was born in Hexian, Ma"anshan, Anhui, China on October 9, 1962. He was admitted to the Sun Yat-sen University chemistry department in 1980 and he later transferred to the mathematics department of the same institution. He received his bachelor"s degree in 1983.
After Zhang received his master"s degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, he studied under Lucien Szpiro and Gerd Faltings at and Princeton University, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in 1991.
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1991 to 1996.
Zhang has been tenured at Columbia University since 1996 and at Princeton University since 2011. Zhang has also been a Changjiang Chair Professor at Tsinghua University since 2000 and an L.-K. Hua Chair Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2001.
Career
He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. Zhang"s main contributions to number theory and arithmetical algebraic geometry are his theory of positive line bundles in Arakelov theory which he used to prove (along with East Ullmo) the Bogomolov conjecture, and also his generalization of the Gross–Zagier theorem from elliptic curves to abelian varieties of GL(2) type over totally real fields. In particular, the latter result led him to a proof of the rank one Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian varieties of GL(2) type over totally real fields.
He has also developed the theory of arithmetic dynamics.
Achievements
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The honors that Zhang has received includes Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1997), Morningside Medal of Mathematics (1998), Clay Foundation Prize Fellow (2003), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2009), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2016). He was also an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998.
Membership
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1991 to 1996.
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Guggenheim Fellowship Clay Foundation Prize Fellow; Morningside Medal; Arts and Sciences The honors that Zhang has received includes Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1997), Morningside Medal of Mathematics (1998), Clay Foundation Prize Fellow (2003), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2009), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2016). He was also an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998. The Morningside Medal of Mathematics is awarded to exceptional mathematicians of Chinese descent under the age of forty-five for their seminal achievements in mathematics and applied mathematics.Guggenheim Fellowship Clay Foundation Prize Fellow; Morningside Medal; Arts and Sciences The honors that Zhang has received includes Sloan Foundation Fellowship (1997), Morningside Medal of Mathematics (1998), Clay Foundation Prize Fellow (2003), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2009), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2016). He was also an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998. The Morningside Medal of Mathematics is awarded to exceptional mathematicians of Chinese descent under the age of forty-five for their seminal achievements in mathematics and applied mathematics.