Renowned Mathematician, Prof. ZHANG Yitang gives a lecture at Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics

In the afternoon of Dec. 25, Prof. ZHANG Yitang from University of California, Santa Barbara was invited to deliver a talk entitled The Landau-Siegel Zero Problem with Application in Number Theory at Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, ZJU.

Prof. ZHANG Yitang is a legendary Chinese mathematician. He was awarded the 2013 Morningside Special Achievement Award in Mathematics,the 2013 Ostrowski Prize,the 2014 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory,and the 2014 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics. He is a recipient of the 2014 MacArthur award, and was elected as an Academia Sinica Fellow during the same year.He was also an invited speaker at the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians.