Alumni Yun Zhiwei and Zhang Wei awarded New Horizons Prize i... [2017-12-13]
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Peking University, Dec. 5, 2017: Peking University alumni Yun Zhiwei and Zhang Wei shared a prestigious New Horizons in Mathematics Prize on December 3, as part of the 2018 Breakthrough Prizes. It was a recognition of `their deep work on the global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture and their discovery of geometric interpretations for the higher derivatives of L-functions in the function field case`. A formula summarizing Zhiwei Yun and Wei Zhang`s proof The proof of global Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture is closely related with the three of the Millennium Prize Problems, namely Hodge conjecture, Riemann hypothesis and BSD (Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer) conjecture. `Our equation connects number theory and...