The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences and its Selection Committee

The 2011 Shaw Prize is shared by a distinguished mathematician Richard S. Hamilton for his excellent work on laying down the foundation for solving the Pointcare conjecture and a strangely distinguished mathematician D. Christodoulou for his work against the brilliant work of Gullstrand (a member of the Nobel committee). The work of Hamilton is well-known as shown in the news papers. However, the work of Christodoulou in the book has been highly questioned by mathematicians and relativists, including the editor of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation although this book was highly regarded by the Princeton University because it supports the errors of the Wheeler School. 

The book of Christodoulou and Klanerman has been politely pointed out as erroneous several times, but they simply disregard them. In fact, S. T. Yau lost his interest in their work before its publication although he participated earlier. In 1995, their work is proven clearly wrong in a paper published in Astrophysical Journal, but the Princeton University also ignored it. Meanwhile, Nobel Laureate attempted to defend the work of Christodoulou. However, he also failed because of his erroneous understanding of the related physics and mathematics at the undergraduate level. Moreover, recently the errors of Christodoulou and Klainerman can be seen clearly with mathematics at the undergraduate level. Thus, there is no longer any double that they are wrong.

The responsibility of selecting mathematicians for the prize in lies in the related selection committee. However, if you check the back ground of her members, it seems none of them has an adequate research background in general relativity. Thus, one may wonder who initiate the nomination of Christodoulou. Some members are clearly not involved for obvious reasons. Thus, it is a puzzle that who actually brings the Shaw Prize into such a difficult situation.

Professor C. N. Yang himself has worked little on general relativity. Although he is known for regarding the view of Professor Zhou Pei-Yuan on Einstein's equivalence principle being invalid as incorrect. However, it turns out that, according to the work of S. Weinberg on gauge theories and my own direct research in general relativity, Professor Yang was wrong.

Thus, it is unlikely that Professor Yang did this nomination. However, it is clear that under the leadership of Professor Yang, the Shaw Prize is not up-to-date on the current developments of sciences.