SHING-TUNG YAU

BIRTH AND DEATH

Birth: 4/4/1949     Death:

OCCUPATION

scientist

BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY

Shing-Tung Yau 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 which point he moved to Tsinghua.

NOTABLE WORK

WHY THEY MATTER

Shing-Tung Yau is known for his groundbreaking work in geometry and mathematical physics, particularly for his contributions to the understanding of the Calabi conjecture and the development of the Calabi-Yau manifolds. His intellectual uniqueness lies in his ability to combine deep mathematical insights with applications in theoretical physics, influencing various fields of study and inspiring generations of mathematicians and scientists.

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