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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Shing-Tung_YauShing-Tung Yau - Wikipedia

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   Shing-Tung Yau (/ j aʊ /; Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at ...

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3. www.sciencenews.org › article › mathematician-tracesA mathematician traces his journey from poverty to prominence

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   Apr 26, 2019 · One of the first remarkable things that mathematician Shing-Tung Yau reveals in his memoir, The Shape of a Life, is that his name was not originally Yau. His family fled China to British-ruled...

4. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Biographies › YauShing-Tung Yau - MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive

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   Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on differential geometry and partial differential equations. He has also received other prestigious mathematical prizes such as the Wolf Prize and the Shaw Prize.

5. daweb.qzc.tsinghua.edu.cn › ShingTungYau › en清华大学 Shing-Tung Yau--Home--Homepage - Tsinghua University

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   Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) ADDRESS: Room 215, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Jing Zhai, Tsinghua University, Hai Dian District, Beijing China. BORN: Shantou, Guangdong, China, April 4, 1949....

6. www.scmp.com › news › chinaChinese-born maths genius leaves Harvard to help China become ...

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   Apr 21, 2022 · World-renowned Chinese mathematician Yau Shing-Tung has announced his retirement from his position at Harvard University to teach full-time at Tsinghua University in Beijing, aiming to help...

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7. www.britannica.com › biography › Shing-Tung-YauShing-Tung Yau | Fields Medal, Geometry, Topology | Britannica

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   Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949, Swatow, China) is a Chinese-born mathematician who won the 1982 Fields Medal for his work in differential geometry. Yau received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971.

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   Who is Yau Shing-Tung?

   • Yau Shing-tung aims to help China cultivate young, top mathematicians at home. Photo: Jonathan Wong World-renowned Chinese mathematician Yau Shing-Tung has announced his retirement from his position at Harvard University to teach full-time at Tsinghua University in Beijing, aiming to help China become a maths powerhouse within a decade.

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   How did Shing-Tung Yau get his name?

   • One of the first remarkable things that mathematician Shing-Tung Yau reveals in his memoir, The Shape of a Life, is that his name was not originally Yau. His family fled China to British-ruled Hong Kong in 1949 when he was an infant, and the name Yau came from a mistranslation on a registration form when he entered elementary school.

   A mathematician traces his journey from poverty to prominence

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   Who are Shing-Tung Yau parents?

   • Shing-Tung Yau was the fifth of the eight children of his parents Chen Ying Chiou and Yeuk-Lam Leung Chiou. He has a younger brother Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (born 1952) who is also an exceptional mathematician. His father was an economist and philosopher working in southern China when Yau was born.

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   Why is the New Yorker article critical of Yau Shing-Tung?

   • In particular the New Yorker article is highly critical of Yau. Richard S Hamilton, Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University, wrote the open letter defending Yau. It begins:- I am very disturbed by the unfair manner in which Yau Shing-Tung has been portrayed in the New Yorker article.

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9. plus.maths.org › content › hidden-dimensionsHidden dimensions | plus.maths.org

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   Dec 21, 2010 · What is surprising, though, is the extent to which the geometry of space actually determines physics and just how exotic the geometric structure of our Universe appears to be. Plus met up with mathematician Shing-Tung Yau to find out more.