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Shing-Tung Yau (/ j aʊ /; 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. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at ...
2004. Existence of incompressible minimal surfaces and the topology of three dimensional manifolds with non-negative scalar curvature. R Schoen, ST Yau. Annals of Mathematics 110 (1), 127-142. , 1979. 780. 1979. A new conformal invariant and its applications to the Willmore conjecture and the first eigenvalue of compact surfaces.
May 8, 2024 · Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949, Swatow, China) is a Chinese-born mathematician who won the 1982 Fields Medal for his work in differential geometry. Yau received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971.
Yau was an active member of Harvard’s Department of Mathematics for 35 years before becoming professor emeritus in 2022. He has been a leader in the fields of mathematics and physics since the early years of his academic career, with a reputation as a thinker of unrivaled technical power.
Shing-Tung Yau (丘成桐) ADDRESS: Room 215, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Jing Zhai, Tsinghua University, Hai Dian District, Beijing China. BORN: Shantou, Guangdong, China, April 4, 1949....
Shing-Tung Yau | DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS. William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus. Contact Information. Science Ctr. 340. 1 Oxford Street. Cambridge MA 02138. yau@math.harvard.edu. p: (617) 495-0836. Role. Faculty.
Prof. Shing-Tung Yau. Distinguished Visiting Professor-at-Large. Address: Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Director, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Unit 601, 6/F, Academic Building No.1, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
Yau, Shing-Tung Professors Emeritus. Research Interests: Differential geometry, partial differential equations, topology, and mathematical physics. Department of Mathematics - Harvard University - William Caspar Graustien Professor of Mathematics - Yau Shing Tung, SC 340, (617) 495-0836.
With Richard Schoen, Yau solved a longstanding question in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity by proving that the sum of the energy in the universe is positive; their proof has provided an important tool for understanding how black holes form.
Jun 1, 2023 · The two laureates were chosen for their contributions related to mathematical physics, arithmetic, and differential geometry, and to Kähler geometry. Yau was an active member of Harvard’s Department of Mathematics for 35 years before becoming professor emeritus in 2022.
