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 ...
Professor Yau Shing-tung is one of the most influential contemporary Mathematicians. He is William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and also serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor-at-Large and Director of The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS) at The Chinese Uni...
Mathematics, Physics, and Calabi-Yau Manifoldsdoi:10.4310/ICCM.2013.V1.N1.A8Shing-Tung YauSteve NadisInternational Press of BostonNotices of the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians