Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; born April 4, 1949) is aChineseAmerican mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars from Jiaoling, Guangdong Province. Yau has impacts on both physics and mathematics. Calabi-Yau man...
Shing-Tung Yaumade deep and fundamental contributions to differential geometry and partial differential equations with an impact that extends beyond mathematics to many scientific disciplines, notably cosmology and theoretical physics…THE ART AND PRACTICE OF MATHEMATICS:Interviews at the Institute for ...
Image Source: Visual China BEIJING, April 21 (TMTPOST) — Renowned mathematician Yau Shing-Tung announced on Wednesday that he will join China’s top-notch institution Tsinghua University as chair professor in mathematics. The 73-year-old scholar, who is the first Chinese winner of the prestigio...
Shing-Tung YauAEs work is mainly in differential geometry, and he is one of the originators of the broad subject of geometric analysis - in which he remains one of the most active participants. His contributions have had an influence on both physics and mathematics, and he has long been ...