Sun Zhiwei (, born October 16, 1965) is a Chinese mathematician, working primarily in number theory, combinatorics, and group theory. He is a professor at Nanjing University. Biography Sun Zhiwei was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu. Sun and his twin brother Sun Zhihong proved a theorem about what are now known as the Wall–Sun–Sun primes. Sun proved Sun's curious identity in 2002. In 2003, he presented a unified approach to three topics of Paul Erdős in combinatorial number theory: covering systems, restricted sumsets, and zero-sum problems or EGZ Theorem. With Stephen Redmond, he posed the Redmond–Sun conjecture in 2006. In 2013, he published a paper containing many conjectures on primes, one of which states that for any positive integer there are consecutive primes not exceeding such that , where denotes the -th prime. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Combinatorics and Number Theory. Notes External links Zhi-Wei Sun's homepage 1965 births 20th-century Chinese mathematicians 21st-century Chinese mathematicians Mathematicians from Jiangsu Combinatorialists Living people Academic staff of Nanjing University Number theorists Scientists from Huai'an Squares in number theory Educators from Huai'an Chinese twins