Yau is considered one of the major contributors to the development of modern differential geometry and geometric analysis.

Shing-Tung Yau 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.

THE EVOLUTION OF YAU: This is the story of how Yau went from being a fringe method for big cubes to the world record method in 5x5 and 6x6.

Jun 1, 2023 · 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 …

Professor Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is known for a wide variety of contributions to mathematics and theoretical physics.

Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars …

Nov 12, 2023 · In 1990 my postdoc Brian Greene, and Ronen Plesser, discovered a way to construct a Calabi-Yau space out of a given one so that they both share a hidden kinship. This phenomenon is …

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 …

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, …

Shing-Tung Yau (/ jaʊ /; 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 …