Xianke Zhang

Xianke Zhang (张贤科, born 1941) is a Chinese mathematician, professor and author at the Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology..

Academic Career

Zhang was among the first professors in China to join the renown Southern University of Science and Technology (SusTech). Before that, he was a professor in Tsinghua University for 14 years. He moved to the Shenzhen Graduate School of Harbin Institute of Technology in 2016.

Posts Held

Zhang was made a Visiting Scholar at the University of Maryland in the United States in 1987 until 1987. He became a Professor at Tsuing Hua University in China in 1993, a post he left in 2011. Zhang was also made a Scientist at the Abdus Salam International Cemtre for Theoretical Physics in Italy in 1991, before being appointed the Senior Scientist in 1999. He still holds this position.

Contribution in Chinese Education

Zhang is known in particular for his artistic integration of traditional culture into teaching. He is the author of several well-known mathematics textbooks, including Introduction to Algebra Number Theory (代数数论导引), Advanced Algebra (高等代数学), Advanced Linear Algebra (高等线性代数), Elementary Number Theory (初等数论). He is also the author of Advanced Algebra Method(高等代数解题方法) and Famous Greek Problems and Modern Mathematics (古希腊命题与现代数学).

His teaching belief was influenced by Luogeng Hua, a pioneering Chinese mathematician who also graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Awards

National awards

• 'National Natural Science' Award (China, 1989)

• 'Chinese PhD for Distinguished Contribution' Award (China, 1991) (“做出突出贡献的中国博士学位获得者”奖)

• 'Advancing Science Award - Chinese Academy of Science' (China, 1988)

Other awards

Zhang has received multiple from the city of Beijing, province of Anhui, Qsing Hua University, University of Science and Technology of china, China Baowu Steel Group.

Publications

On Number Fields of Type (L, L, …, L) , Scientia Sinica,  A27(1984),  No. 10, 1018-1026; (the author of the followings is Zhang Xianke unless otherwise specified)

Cyclic Quartic Fields and Genus Theory of Their Subfields,  J. Number Theory, 18 (1984), No.3, 350-355;

A Simple Construction of Genus Fields of Abelian Number Fields, Proceed. of American Math. Soc.  94(1985), No.3. 393-395;

Determination of algebraic function fields of type (2, 2, …, 2) with class number one, Sci. Sinica Ser. A31(1988), no.8, 908-915;

Ten Formulae of Type Ankeny-Artin-Chowla for Class Numbers of General Cyclic Quartic Fields,  Scientia Sinica, A32(1989), 4:417-428

Ideal Class Groups and Their Subgroups of Real Quadratic Fields (by Zhang XK & L.Washington),  Science in China, A40(1997) 9: 909-916

Counterexample and correction about genus fields of number fields. J. Number Theory 23(1986), no.3, 318-321.

Structure and Prime Decomp. Law and Relative Extensions of Abelian Fields with Prime Power Degree,  Science in China, A42(1999)8:816-824

Steinitz Class of Mordell-Weill Groups of Elliptic Curves with C M (by Liu Tong & Zhang XK )  Pacific  J. of Math. 193(2000), 2: 371-379.

L-Series and Their 2-adic Valuations at s=1 Attached to CM Elliptic Curves, Acta Arithmetica, 103.1(2002), 79-95 (by DR QIU, XK ZHANG)

Congruence Formulae modulo powers of 2 for class numbers of cyclic quartic fields,   Sci. China A 52 (2009), No.2, 417-426 (by Ma Lianrong, Li Wei, Zhang Xianke)

References

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