What two people are arguing about is actually secondary, because even if one or two mathematicians have personality problems, plagiarism or intentional damage to others' reputation is not a big deal. Now many people do differential geometry because of the influence of Chen Shengshen. After coming to the United States, they often follow Professor China when choosing a tutor.
For young mathematicians, we should put aside academic and political arguments and choose a favorite tutor to do mathematics. In mathematics, both Tian Gang and Qiu Chengtong have made considerable contributions, and young people can still learn a lot from their work (such as Qiu Chengtong's lecture on differential geometry).
Qiu Chengtong's introduction:
198 1 year. At the age of 32, he won the Van Buren Award of the American Mathematical Society, one of the highest awards in differential geometry.
1983 was awarded the Fields Medal-the highest honor in mathematics; 1994 won the Crawford Prize.
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.
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.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Qiu Chengtong.