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跟大旱本身的教育系统关系不大,主要工作和成就也是在美帝完成了。
Hong Wang, influenced her most:
Larry Guth (her PhD advisor at MIT) — the pivotal moment was in 2013, before she was even his student: during a research internship at MIT, Wang attended a seminar by Guth where he explained his proof with Nets Katz of the Erdős distinct distances problem so clearly that she felt she could follow it, which motivated her to enter incidence geometry. She joined MIT's PhD program the next year specifically to work with him. Quanta MagazineQuanta Magazine
Terence Tao — while at the Institute for Advanced Study during the pandemic, she read a 2014 blog post by Tao laying out a proof strategy he and Katz had developed but never pursued, which became the seed of her eventual approach. Quanta Magazine
Joshua Zahl — she reached out to him because he'd studied aspects of the Kakeya problem in his own thesis, and their collaboration produced the final proof. Quanta Magazine
Background lineage: her work sits on top of decades of incidence-geometry/harmonic-analysis machinery built by Guth, Katz, Tao, Bourgain, and Wolff on Kakeya-type problems.
Yu Deng, influenced him most:
Alexandru Ionescu (his PhD advisor at Princeton) — Deng earned his PhD there in 2015 under Ionescu, working on dispersive equations, fluid dynamics, and probabilistic analysis, which became the technical toolkit he later applied to kinetic theory. BaiduWiki
Zaher Hani — long-time collaborator; their earlier joint work on wave turbulence (deriving wave kinetic equations) turned out to be the conceptual bridge to the Boltzmann problem — Deng and Hani realized their wave-turbulence research could translate to particle collisions, where repeated interactions build shared histories that threaten a particle's statistical independence. University of Chicago News
Xiao Ma — brought in as the third collaborator; notably, Ma was a recent Princeton graduate who had studied under Deng's own former advisor, Ionescu, so the whole team traces back to the same lineage. University of Chicago News
Oscar Lanford — the historical predecessor whose result they extended: in 1975, Lanford proved this derivation but only for very short time periods; the hard part Deng's team solved was extending it to long times, where particles collide repeatedly and lose statistical independence. University of Chicago News.
The short version: Wang's breakthrough is really a Guth → Tao/Katz → Wang/Zahl chain in incidence geometry; Deng's is an Ionescu-trained PDE specialist teaming up with Hani (wave turbulence) and Ma (another Ionescu student) to finish what Lanford started 50 years earlier on Hilbert's sixth problem.
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