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

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   Contents. Shing-Tung Yau. Not to be confused with his brother, Stephen Shing-Toung Yau. In this Chinese name, the family name is Yau. Shing-Tung Yau (/ jaʊ /; 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 ...

2. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2006/08/28The Clash Over the Poincaré Conjecture - The New Yorker

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   Aug 28, 2006 · Shing-Tung Yau was also asking Hamilton questions about the Ricci flow. Yau and Hamilton had met in the seventies, and had become close, despite considerable differences in temperament and background.

3. www.nytimes.com › 2006/10/17 › scienceShing-Tung Yau: The Emperor of Math - Dennis Overbye - The ...

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   Oct 17, 2006 · Scientist at Work: Shing-Tung Yau. The Emperor of Math. By Dennis Overbye. Oct. 17, 2006. Correction Appended. He says he is still embarrassed about the road. In 1979, Shing-Tung Yau, then a ...

4. english.news.cn › 20240111 › 8844ef8b25cf4338a3e35b9Profile: A mathematician's lifelong quest for truth and beauty

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   Jan 11, 2024 · In 2020, Tsinghua initiated a leading talent-training program in mathematics named after Yau. The following year, Qiuzhen College was founded, with Yau serving as its dean. The college's motto, "pursuing the truth and beauty of mathematics," is also a portrayal of Yau's lifelong pursuit. "Winning awards is not my objective in doing research.

5. www.scmp.com › lifestyle › arts-cultureMaths genius on his journey from Hong Kong to Berkeley ...

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   May 7, 2019 · Raised in Hong Kong in a two-room shack, Shing-Tung Yau defied the odds to reach Berkeley and become one of the world’s most influential mathematicians; he ponders the nature of learning, and ...

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6. old.maa.org › press › maa-reviewsThe Shape of a Life | Mathematical Association of America

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   Jun 3, 2019 · Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis. This autobiography of Shing-Tung Yau traces his life from earliest memories of the small village in China, where he was born, to his current position as one of the best-known mathematicians in the world. Yau’s family was very poor, but his parents valued learning and did their utmost to support his education.

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   Who is Shing-Tung Yau?

   • Shing-Tung Yau (/ jaʊ /; 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.

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   Is Shing-Tung Yau still embarrassed about the road?

   • He says he is still embarrassed about the road. 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 mountain town in Guangdong Province. At first they refused, saying the town was not on the map.

   Shing-Tung Yau: The Emperor of Math - The New York Times

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   Where did Chiu Chin Yin grow up?

   • I was born in Shantou, a small town in southern China in 1949. Before long, my father Chiu Chin Yin brought the family to Hong Kong to flee the civil war, where I grew up in the farming villages in the New Territories. My father earned his living by lecturing in several colleges simultaneously. The income was meagre and life was hard.

   Shing-Tung Yau - The Shaw Prize

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   Where was Yau born & raised?

   • Yau was born in Shantou, Guangdong, Republic of China in 1949 to Hakka parents. [YN19] His ancestral hometown is Jiaoling County, China. [YN19] His mother, Yeuk Lam Leung, was from Meixian District, China; his father, Chen Ying Chiu (丘鎭英), was a Republic of China Kuomintang scholar of philosophy, history, literature, and economics.

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   What did Yau say about China?

   • In a speech he gave at Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou, during the summer of 2004, Yau reminded his listeners of his Chinese roots. “When I stepped out from the airplane, I touched the soil of Beijing and felt great joy to be in my mother country,” he said.

   The Clash Over the Poincaré Conjecture - The New Yorker

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   Where did Yau study math?

   • Yau studied math at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he attracted the attention of Shiing-Shen Chern, the preëminent Chinese mathematician, who helped him win a scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley. Chern was the author of a famous theorem combining topology and geometry.

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8. www.shawprize.org › autobiography › shing-tung-yauShing-Tung Yau - The Shaw Prize

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   Nov 12, 2023 · Shing-Tung Yau - The Shaw Prize. I was born in Shantou, a small town in southern China in 1949. Before long, my father Chiu Chin Yin brought the family to Hong Kong to flee the civil war, where I grew up in the farming villages in the New Territories. My father earned his living by lecturing in several colleges simultaneously.