In addition, he has also won the title of the best scientist in national medal of science award and California, and is an academician of the American Academy of Sciences, an honorary doctor of Harvard University, a foreign academician of the China Academy of Sciences, and an honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. ...
Qiu Chengtong, 1949, a native of Shantou, Guangdong Province, settled in Hong Kong with his family. My father taught at Hong Kong Xiangrang College and Chung Chi College, the predecessor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. My father and godmother are very kind. Qiu Chengtong had a carefree childhood and got excellent grades. But when 14 years old, his father died suddenly, and the family suddenly lost its financial resources. Although Qiu Chengtong had to work and study at the same time, he was admitted to the Mathematics Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong with excellent results.
During his college years, he completed all the required courses in three years and read a lot of extracurricular materials. His outstanding achievements and research spirit were appreciated by Saraf, an American professor at that time, and Saraf strongly recommended him to pursue doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Around the 1970s, Berkeley was the center of differential geometry in the world, where many outstanding geometricians and young scholars gathered. Here, Qiu Chengtong won a scholarship from IBM and studied under the famous differential geometer Chen Shengshen.
Mathematics is wonderful and rough. Even young students who are determined to make contributions in the field of mathematics can persist in the end and produce results, which is really rare. Qiu Chengtong is such a "morning star". It is often the case that there are fewer and fewer students in the huge classroom, and finally only the professor gives detailed guidance to the only student under the podium. The only student here is Qiu Chengtong. After studying in Berkeley for one year, Qiu Chengtong finished his doctoral thesis and skillfully solved the famous "Wolf conjecture" at that time. His ingenious solution to this problem made the world mathematics community aware of the emergence of a new mathematical star.
After receiving his doctor's degree, Qiu Chengtong met many young world-class mathematicians and finished two papers during his one-year visit to Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies. 1In the autumn of 972, Qiu Chengtong, who was only 23 years old, was invited to work as an associate professor at Xishi Branch of new york University and finished several papers. At the conference on differential geometry held by the American Mathematical Society in 1973, Qiu Chengtong made three academic reports, and showed his leading level in the field of differential geometry to the mathematical community with his outstanding ability and contribution. This year is a very important year in Qiu Chengtong's mathematics career. He finished a famous paper called Upregulated Sum Function of Complete Riemannian Manifolds, which, in his own words, was a turning point in his mathematical career. In fact, this paper laid the foundation for his basic ideas and skills in using analytical methods.
Qiu Chengtong's most important and influential work is to prove "Calabi conjecture". He solved this problem with powerful partial differential equation estimation at the end of 1976. While solving "Calabi conjecture", he also proved the existence of Kohler-Einstein metric on compact Kohler manifold with negative definite first Chen class.
From 65438 to 0976, Qiu Chengtong was promoted to be a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. 1978, invited to give an academic report entitled "The Role of Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry" at the World Mathematical Congress held in Finland. This report represents the research direction, methods and mainstream of differential geometry around the 1980s. Later, he solved a series of difficult problems in the field of mathematics, such as "positive mass conjecture".
Qiu Chengtong's research work is profound and extensive, involving all aspects of differential geometry, with many achievements. From 65438 to 0989, the American Mathematical Society held a conference on differential geometry in Los Angeles, and Qiu Chengtong, as a new generation leader of differential geometry in the world, served as the chairman of the conference.
Fate is fair, medals and honors are awarded to those who persist in the classroom to the end. This did not stop Qiu Chengtong from continuing to do a lot of complicated research work and achieving continuous results.
Perseverance, perseverance and perseverance are the spirit of Qiu Chengtong. Of course, not everyone with this spirit can achieve the same achievements as Qiu Chengtong. Mathematics needs diligence as well as genius. As the famous mathematician nirenberg said, Qiu Chengtong "not only has the intuitive ability of a geometer, but also has the talent of an analyst". Mr. Zheng, a famous mathematician, recalled that he had been thinking about many mathematical problems for nearly 20 years. Although they still haven't solved it, he still hasn't given up thinking easily.
Qiu Chengtong has always been very concerned about China's mathematics career. Since 1984, he has recruited more than a dozen doctoral students in China to train talents in differential geometry for China. His approach is not only to teach students some special skills, but also to teach them how to understand the incisiveness of mathematics. His student Tian Gang also won the Van Buren Prize with 1996, and is recognized as one of the most outstanding differential geometricians in the world.
Mathematics is wonderful, and only by perseverance can we explore its true meaning. For a mathematician like Qiu Chengtong, this kind of exploration is not only the meaning of life, but also the pleasure of life.