Xian-Jin Li is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Brigham Young University. He works in analytic number theory, and Li's criterion is named after him.

Career

Li earned his PhD degree in 1993 from Purdue University, studying under Louis de Branges. His dissertation was on the Riemann Hypothesis (The Riemann Hypothesis For Polynomials Orthogonal On The Unit Circle). In 1997, he proved a famous criterion about the Riemann Hypothesis known as Li's criterion.

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