Sun Zhiwei

Sun Zhiwei (Chinese: 孙智伟; pinyin: Sūn Zhìwěi; Wade–Giles: Sun Chih-wei, 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.^{[citation needed]} Sun proved Sun's curious identity in 2002.^[1] 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.^[2] 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 $2 m + 2.2 \sqrt{m}$ such that $m = p_{n} - p_{n - 1} + . . . + (- 1)^{n - k} p_{k}$ , where $p_{j}$ denotes the $j$ -th prime.^[3] He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory.^{[citation needed]}