吳傳喜
湖北大學數學與統計學院教授
吳傳喜
1978年,吳傳喜考入湖大前身“武漢師範學院”。又是十年寒窗,1988年他在北京大學獲博士學位。這時,人生的第一個關口擺在了他的面前:去中科院數學所,留在北大,還是回到湖北大學?最終,吳傳喜選擇了後者,成為湖大數學系當時唯一的具有北大博士學歷的教師。理由很簡單:“她是母校,從感情上我無法拒絕。”
吳傳喜學術主攻方向是國內剛剛起步的微分幾何學。在他的帶領下,湖北大學在華中地區率先形成了一個微分幾何學術群體,引起了國內外數學界的關注。1991年到1994年,吳傳喜應邀赴美,先後在柏克利數學所、裏海大學從事博士后研究和學術交流訪問。之後,他又一次面臨著人生選擇:是留在學術領先、待遇優厚的美國,還是回到相對落後的中國?吳傳喜回來了,他說:“如果大家都因為祖國條件不好而不回來,那祖國的條件什麼時候才能變好啊!”
每年3篇左右的論文在國內外學術刊物上發表,主持完成兩項國家自然科學基金項目,被美國《數學評論》雜誌特聘為評論員……近 年來,吳傳喜在微分幾何學領域研究令人矚目。而與此同時,他也不斷被委以重任。從普通教師到系主任助理、系副主任、校長助理、副校長, 2000年1月,38歲的他被任命為湖北大學校長,成為當時中國最年輕的大學校長。幾度花開花落,幾度果壓枝頭,有著70多年歷史的湖大如今生機煥發:現有31個省級重點學科,2個國家基地班(華中地區省屬高校中唯一擁有國家基地班的大學),16個學科獲准設立“楚天學者計劃”特聘教授崗位,有54個本科專業,12個碩士學位授權一級學科,9個博士學位授權學科專業,105個碩士學位授權學科專業,3個專業學位授予點。校本部有全日制本科生1.6萬餘人、博士、碩士研究生2100多人。並建有中南地區最大的圖書館、全國高校單體建築面積最大的校內超市。
回顧成長路,吳傳喜感嘆:“人生的每一次的確很重要,我慶幸自己回到了祖國,回到了湖北!”
代表性著作: 《子流形幾何》
1. Li, Guanghan; Wu, Chuanxi. Slant immersions of complex space forms and Chen’s inequality. Acta Math. Sci. Ser. B Engl. Ed. 25 (2005), no. 2, 223—232.
2. Li, Guang-han; Wu, Chuan-xi The spectral characterizations of hypersurfaces in a sphere. Adv. Math. (China) 33 (2004), no. 5, 575—580.
3. Wu, Chuan-xi; Li, Guang-han Classification of submanifolds in a non-Sasakian contact metric (k,µ) -space. J. Math. (Wuhan) 22 (2002), no. 2, 140—146.
4. Li, Guang Han; Wu, Chuan Xi Rigidity theorems for submanifolds. (Chinese) Acta Math. Sci. Ser. A Chin. Ed. 21 (2001), no. 4, 480—484.
5. Li, Guang Han; Wu, Chuan Xi Relations between focal points and shape operators of submanifolds in noncompact symmetric spaces. (Chinese) Acta Math. Sci. (Chinese) 19 (1999), no. 4, 387--396.
6. Wu, Chuanxi On the index of minimal curvature submanifolds. Arch. Math. (Basel) 70 (1998), no. 6, 499--504.
7. Hsiung, Chuan-Chih; Wu, Chuan Xi The spectral geometry of almost L manifolds. Bull. Inst. Math. Acad. Sinica 23 (1995), no. 3, 229--241.
8. Wu, Chuan Xi A new characterization of generalized equators in complex and quaternionic projective spaces. (Chinese) Adv. in Math. (China) 23 (1994), no. 5, 396--399.
9. Wu, Chuan Xi New characterizations of the Clifford tori and the Veronese surface. Arch. Math. (Basel) 61 (1993), no. 3, 277--284.
10. Wu, Chuan Xi A note on stable harmonic mappings. (Chinese) J. Math. (Wuhan) 11 (1991), no. 1, 72--76.
11. Wu, Chuan Xi Some results on stable harmonic maps. (Chinese) Acta Math. Sinica 34 (1991), no. 1, 27--32.
12. Wu, Chuan Xi Geometry and topology of a class of submanifolds in projective spaces. (Chinese) Acta Math. Sinica 33 (1990), no. 5, 667--673.
13. Wu, Chuan Xi Theorems on nonexistence of stable harmonic maps. (Chinese) Adv. in Math. (China) 19 (1990), no. 4, 462--466.
14. Wu, Chuan Xi A characterization of the Clifford minimal hypersufaces. (Chinese) Adv. in Math. (Beijing) 18 (1989), no. 3, 352--355.
15. Wu, Chuan Xi Remarks on minimal hypersurfaces of constant curvature on a sphere. (Chinese) J. Math. (Wuhan) 8 (1988), no. 1, 15--21.
16. Wu, Chuan Xi On two classes of hypersurfaces in a space of constant curvature. Differential geometry and differential equations (Shanghai, 1985), 160--172, Lecture Notes in Math., 1255, Springer, Berlin, 1987.