Key facts
- Born
- ( 1949-04-04 ) April 4, 1949 (age 77) , Shantou , China
- Alma mater
- Chinese University of Hong Kong , University of California, Berkeley ( PhD )
- Spouse
- Yu-yun Kuo
- Children
- Michael Yau, Isaac Chiu
- Awards
- John J. Carty Award (1981), Veblen Prize (1981), Fields Medal (1982), Crafoord Prize (1994), National Medal of Science (1997), Wolf Prize (2010), Shaw Prize (2023)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Tsinghua University , Harvard University , University of California, San Diego , Stanford University , Stony Brook University , Institute for Advanced Study
- Thesis
- On the Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Non-Positive Curvature (1971)
- Doctoral advisor
- Shiing-Shen Chern
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- British Hong Kong
- Place of birth
- Shantou
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Employer
- Zhejiang University
- Languages spoken
- Hakka Chinese
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- H. Blaine Lawson
- Student of
- Shiing-Shen Chern
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Shing-Tung Yau.jpg
- Residence
- Greater Boston
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- member of
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Shing-Tung Yau
- Erdős number
- 2
- date of birth
- 1949-04-04
- name in native language
- Khiu Sṳ̀n-thûng
- ethnic group
- Chinese Americans
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Encyclopedic overview
Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; Jyutping: jau1 sing4 tung4; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician and educator. He is the First ethnic Chinese Fields medalist and 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 which point he moved to Tsinghua.
Yau was born in Shantou in 1949, moved to Hong Kong at a young age, and then moved to the United States in 1969. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, in recognition of his contributions to partial differential equations, the Calabi conjecture, the positive energy theorem, and the Monge–Ampère equation. Yau is considered one of the major contributors to the development of modern differential geometry and geometric analysis. The impact of Yau's work are also seen in the mathematical and physical fields of convex geometry, algebraic geometry, enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, general relativity, and string theory, while his work has also touched upon applied mathematics, engineering, and numerical analysis.
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