Sun Zhihong (, born October 16, 1965) is a Chinese mathematician, working primarily on number theory,

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many appl ...

, and graph theory. Sun and his twin brother Sun Zhiwei proved a theorem about what are now known as the

Wall–Sun–Sun prime In number theory, a Wall–Sun–Sun prime or Fibonacci–Wieferich prime is a certain kind of prime number which is conjectured to exist, although none are known. Definition Let p be a prime number. When each term in the sequence of Fibonac ...

s that guided the search for counterexamples to Fermat's Last Theorem.

External links

Zhi-Hong Sun's homepage
1965 births Living people Mathematicians from Jiangsu 20th-century Chinese mathematicians 21st-century Chinese mathematicians Number theorists Huaiyin Normal University faculty Scientists from Huai'an Educators from Huai'an Chinese twins {{Asia-mathematician-stub