第六届“复旦-中植科学奖”授予两位数学家 - 2021年12月24日

Globally eminent mathematicians Benedict Gross and Don Zagier have been granted this year's Fudan-Zhongzhi Science Award this year.

They were recognized for their formulation and proof of the Gross-Zagier formula, which relates the height of Heegner points with the central derivatives of the zeta function of the corresponding elliptic curves.

Gross, emeritus professor of mathematics at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, and Zagier, emeritus scientific member and director of Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, established striking cases of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture.