送交者: del 于 2007-12-06, 13:37:05:
I know just a little about Prof. Tianping Chen.
He was (and is) a pure mathematician before cooperating with his son. It is clearly, at least to me, that problems considered in those papers came from the research field of his son, not from his own. I think that it is a good example of cooperation between two different fields, though they are fathor and son. After this cooperation, Prof. Chen becomes an expert in the field of network. Many mathematicians in China know this story. Certainly it is not easy to guess who makes main contributions in this cooperation. In fact, when Prof Chen used these papers to get a prize from chinese govement, some people guessed if his son made main contributions.:-)