Shing-Tung Yau

1949 -

country of citizenship: United States of America, British Hong Kong, Hong Kong

languages spoken, written or signed: English, Cantonese, Hakka Chinese

educated at: University of California, Berkeley, Pui Ching Middle School, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

occupation: mathematician, university teacher, professor, scientist

award received: Fields medal, Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellows Program, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, National Medal of Science, Humboldt Prize, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Crafoord Prize in Mathematics, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, honorary doctor of the Zhejiang University, honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Crafoord Prize, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, Shaw Prize, Great Immigrants

student of: Shiing-Shen Chern

Shing-Tung Yau (; 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 he was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at which point he moved to Tsinghua.Yau was born in Shantou, China, moved to Hong Kong at a young age, and to the United States in 1969. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, in recognition of his contributions to partial differential equations, the Calabi conjecture, the positive energy theorem, and the Monge–Ampère equation. Yau is considered one of the major contributors to the development of modern differential geometry and geometric analysis. The impact of Yau's work can be seen in the mathematical and physical fields of differential geometry, partial differential equations, convex geometry, algebraic geometry, enumerative geometry, mirror symmetry, general relativity, and string theory, while his work has also touched upon applied mathematics, engineering, and numerical analysis. Source: Wikipedia (en)