Shou-Wu Zhang

Shou-Wu Zhang (; born October 9, 1962) is a Chinese-American mathematician known for his work in number theory and arithmetic geometry. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Princeton University.

Biography Early life Shou-Wu Zhang was born in Hexian, Ma'anshan, Anhui, China, on October 9, 1962. Zhang grew up in a poor farming household and could not attend school until eighth grade due to the Cultural Revolution.

Education Zhang was admitted to the Sun Yat-sen University chemistry department in 1980 after scoring poorly on his mathematics entrance examinations, but he later transferred to the mathematics department after feigning color blindness and received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1983. In 1986, Zhang was brought to the United States to pursue his doctoral studies at Columbia University by Dorian M. Goldfeld.

Career Zhang was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1991 to 1996. and was named a Eugene Higgins Professor in 2021.

Zhang is on the editorial boards of: Acta Mathematica Sinica, Algebra & Number Theory, Forum of Mathematics, Journal of Differential Geometry, National Science Review, Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Science in China, and Research in Number Theory.

In 2001, Zhang proved a generalization of the Gross–Zagier theorem to modular abelian varieties of GL(2) type . In 2013, Zhang and his former doctoral students Xinyi Yuan and Wei Zhang established a full generalization of the Gross–Zagier theorem to all Shimura curves .

In arithmetic dynamics, posed conjectures on the Zariski density of non-fibered endomorphisms of quasi-projective varieties and proposed a dynamical analogue of the Manin–Mumford conjecture.

Awards Zhang has received a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (1997) and a Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics (1998). He is also a Clay Foundation Prize Fellow (2003), Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2009), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2016).

Selected publications Arakelov theory . . . . . . .

Bogomolov conjecture . .

Gross–Zagier formulae . . . . . .

Arithmetic dynamics . .