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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 ...
Oct 17, 2006 · He did not participate, but he was already political. He and his friends demonstrated at the Taiwan Consulate General in San Francisco to protest Japanese incursions on Chinese territory.
Aug 28, 2006 · David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar on the math world’s war over who solved the Poincaré conjecture. Among the contenders are Shing-Tung Yau and Grigory Perelman.
Jun 28, 2023 · Shing-Tung Yau is a force of nature. He is best known for conceiving the math behind string theory—which holds that, at the deepest level of reality, our universe is built out of 10-dimensional, subatomic vibrating strings.
A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape-the Calabi-Yau manifold-that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.
Feb 19, 2019 · Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe.
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Shing-Tung Yau. Biography MathSciNet. Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1971. Dissertation: On the Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Non-positive Curvature. Click here to see the students listed in chronological order. According to our current on-line database, Shing-Tung Yau has 75 students and 588 descendants.
