Wang Xianghao
{{Short description|Chinese mathematician}}
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Wang Xianghao, Shianghao Wang, or Shianghaw Wang ({{zh|c=王湘浩}}; 5 May 1915 – 4 May 1993) was a Chinese mathematician who introduced the Grunwald–Wang theorem in {{harvs|last=Wang|year1=1948|year2=1950}}, correcting an error in Wilhelm Grunwald's original statement and proof of this. He later changed from mathematics to computer science and control theory, and became a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.{{harv|Roquette|2005|page=30}}
{{quotebox|align=right|width=30%|quote=Some days later I was with Artin in his office when Wang appeared. He said he had a counterexample to a lemma which had been used in the proof. An hour or two later, he produced a counterexample to the theorem itself... Of course he [Artin] was astonished, as were all of us students, that a famous theorem with two published proofs, one of which we had all heard in the seminar without our noticing anything, could be wrong.
|source=John Tate, quoted in {{harvtxt|Roquette|2005|loc=p.30}}
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References
- {{Citation | last1=Roquette | first1=Peter | title=The Brauer-Hasse-Noether theorem in historical perspective | url=http://rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~ci3/brhano.pdf | publisher=Springer-Verlag | location=Berlin, New York | series=Schriften der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften [Publications of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Section of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences] | isbn=978-3-540-23005-2 | year=2005 | volume=15}}
- {{Citation | last1=Wang | first1=Shianghaw | title=A counter-example to Grunwald's theorem | jstor=1969410 | year=1948 | journal=Annals of Mathematics |series=Second Series | issn=0003-486X | volume=49 | issue=4 | pages=1008–1009|mr=0026992|doi=10.2307/1969410}}
- {{Citation | last1=Wang | first1=Shianghaw | title=On Grunwald's theorem | jstor=1969335 | year=1950 | journal=Annals of Mathematics |series=Second Series | issn=0003-486X | volume=51 | issue=2 | pages=471–484|mr=0033801 | doi=10.2307/1969335}}
{{Founding members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences}}
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Category:20th-century Chinese mathematicians
Category:Academic staff of Jilin University
Category:Mathematicians from Hebei
Category:Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences