Qiudong Wang

American astronomer

Qiudong Wang is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, the University of Arizona. In 1982, he received a B.S. at Nanjing University and in 1994 a Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati.^[1]

Wang is best known for his 1991 paper The global solution of the n-body problem,^[2] in which he generalised Karl F. Sundman's results from 1912 to a system of more than three bodies. However, L. K. Babadzanjanz [ru] claims to have made the same generalization earlier, in 1979.^[3]^[4]

References

^ Home page of Qiudong Wang (University of Arizona, retrieved on 2007-05-05)
^ Wang, Qiu Dong (1991), "The global solution of the n-body problem", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 50 (1): 73–88, Bibcode:1991CeMDA..50...73W, doi:10.1007/BF00048987, MR 1117788, S2CID 118132097.
^ Babadzanjanz, L. K. (1979), "Existence of the continuations in the N-body problem", Celestial Mechanics, 20 (1): 43–57, Bibcode:1979CeMec..20...43B, doi:10.1007/BF01236607, MR 0538663, S2CID 120358878.
^ Babadzanjanz, L. K. (1993), "On the global solution of the N-body problem", Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 56 (3): 427–449, Bibcode:1993CeMDA..56..427B, doi:10.1007/BF00691812, MR 1225892, S2CID 120617936.