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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 ...
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.
Nov 12, 2023 · I thank my wife and my two sons for their love and support. I treasure the joy of growing up together with my siblings and childhood friends S T Chui and S Y Cheng. I am indebted to my teachers S S Chern, Charles B Morrey, Louis Nirenberg and I M Singer who taught me ways of thinking mathematics.
Oct 17, 2006 · In 1979, Shing-Tung Yau, then a mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was visiting China and asked the authorities for permission to visit his birthplace, Shantou, a...
Apr 26, 2019 · Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis. Yale Univ., $28. 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...
Mr.Shing-Tung Yau is one of the most influential mathematicians of contemporary times. His outstanding contributions are extensive and profound in the fields of mathematics and physics,...
Mar 23, 2019 · Yau was immediately attracted to a physics grad student (who eventually became his wife). He did not approach her, as they had not been introduced. 18 months later when he was about to leave, he imposed on a friend to have a dinner to which she was invited.
