Sun Zhiwei

Sun Zhiwei (Template:Zh, 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.Template:Cn

Sun proved Sun's curious identity 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 $m$ there are consecutive primes $p_k,\dots ,p_n(k<n)$ not exceeding $2m+2.2\sqrt{m}$ such that $m=p_n-p_{n-1}+...+(-1{)}^{n-k}{p}_k$, where $p_j$ denotes the $j$-th prime.

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

External links

• Zhi-Wei Sun's homepage