Qiu Chengtong is the first China person to win the Fields Medal. He is an academician of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Taiwan Academia Sinica, the China Academy of Sciences and the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences.
At present, he is Professor Bowen of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, tenured professor of the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Harvard University, Professor Tsinghua University, director of the Qiu Chengtong Center for Mathematical Sciences, and dean of the Yanqi Lake Institute of Applied Mathematics.
1969 graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong; 197 1 received a doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley (under Chen Shengshen); 1974- 1987 Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, and University of California, San Diego; 1987 Professor at Harvard University; 1993 was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
From 65438 to 0994, he became an academician of Taiwan Academia Sinica and a foreign academician of China Academy of Sciences. In the same year, he became the director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2003, he became a professor at the Bowen College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since 20 13, he has served as the physics department of Harvard University.
Qiu Chengtong has won the veblen Prize in Geometry (198 1), Fields Prize (1982), MacArthur Prize (1985), Crawford Prize (1994) and National Science Award (/kloc-0).
Qiu Chengtong proved Calabi conjecture, positive mass conjecture and so on, and was the founder of the discipline of geometric analysis. Karlaby-Chueh manifold named after him is the basic concept of string theory in physics and has made important contributions to the development of differential geometry and mathematical physics.
Character evaluation:
Qiu Chengtong was once praised as "the most influential mathematician in the last1/4th century" by the international mathematician Singh Donaldson.
Singh, an international master of mathematics and winner of the Abel Prize, said: "Even at Harvard, Qiu Chengtong is a department of mathematics!"
The famous algebraic geometer F Bogomoloff commented: "Professor Qiu Chengtong is undoubtedly one of the leading mathematicians in the world today. Every conversation with him will give birth to some new, great ideas or unusual problems. "
The New York Times called him "Julius Caesar in the kingdom of mathematics", which implied a summary of his character: perseverance and courage. This character is obviously an important cornerstone of his success.