Mathematician:Shing-Tung Yau
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Mathematician
Chinese-American mathematician working on the development of modern differential geometry and geometric analysis..
Fields Medal
Shing-Tung Yau was awarded a Fields Medal in $\text {1982}$ at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw, Poland:
- Made contributions in differential equations, also to the Calabi conjecture in algebraic geometry, to the positive mass conjecture of general relativity theory, and to real and complex Monge–Ampère equations.
Wolf Prize
Shing-Tung Yau was awarded a Wolf Prize for Mathematics in $\text {2010}$:
- For his work in geometric analysis that has had a profound and dramatic impact on many areas of geometry and physics.
Nationality
Chinese-American
History
- Born: 4 April 1949 in Shantou, Guangdong, China
Theorems and Definitions
- Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau Inequality (with Fedor Alekseyevich Bogomolov and Yoichi Miyaoka)
- Donaldson-Uhlenbeck-Yau Theorem (with Simon Kirwan Donaldson and Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck)
- Omori−Yau Maximum Principle (with Hideki Omori)
- Calabi-Yau Manifold (with Eugenio Calabi)
- Thomas-Yau Conjecture (with Richard Paul Winsley Thomas)
Results named for Shing-Tung Yau can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Shing-Tung Yau can be found here.
Publications
- 1986: On the existence of Hermitian-Yang-Mills connections in stable vector bundles (Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics Vol. 39: pp. S257 – S293) (with Karen Uhlenbeck)
Also known as
Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng.