Shing-Tung Yau High School Mathematics Awards. Chairman of abroad prize selection committee. Field Medalist, Professor of Harvard University , Director of CMS at Zhejiang University. Chairman of national prize selection committee. Morningside Medalist,Professor of UCLA,Executive director of CMS at Zhejian...
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...
He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 and the Wolf Prize in 2010, and has received many other honors. The Selected Expository Works of Shing-Tung Yau with Commentary provides the reader with systematic commentary on all aspects of mathematics by a contemporary master. The reader can thereby ...
Due to inadequate understanding in physics, mathematicians have made misleading erroneous claims in general relativity that result in awarding three times the Fields Medal in 1982 to S. T. Yau, and 1990 to E. Witten, and the 2011 Shaw Prize to D. Christodoulou. It is pointed out that they...