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...

conjectured that such surfaces might exist, and Shing-Tung Yau (1978) who proved the Calabi conjecture. Calabi–Yau manifolds are complex manifolds that are generalizations...

theory. It is named after mathematicians Eugenio Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau. After Calabi–Yau manifolds had entered physics as a way to compactify extra...

differential equations, and geometric measure theory. Richard Schoen and Shing-Tung Yau, in 1979 and 1981, were the first to give proofs of the positive mass...

the largest and most prominent mathematical institutes in the world. Shing-Tung Yau was one of his PhD students during this period, and he later won the...

types of the underlying real 4-manifold. It was proved independently by Shing-Tung Yau (1977, 1978) and Yoichi Miyaoka (1977), after Antonius Van de Ven (1966)...

1980s fundamental contributions by Karen Uhlenbeck, Clifford Taubes, Shing-Tung Yau, Richard Schoen, and Richard Hamilton launched a particularly exciting...

of which are in the field of geometric flows. In 1986, Peter Li and Shing-Tung Yau discovered a new method for applying the maximum principle to control...

in the geometric underpinnings of the cosmos. Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau expressed a belief in the centrality of geometry in 2010: "Lest one...

Mikhail Gromov (1943–) Rudy Rucker (1946–) William Thurston (1946–2012) Shing-Tung Yau (1949–) Michael Freedman (1951–) Egon Schulte (1955–) – polytopes George...

complex manifolds, made by Eugenio Calabi (1954, 1957). It was proved by Shing-Tung Yau (1977, 1978), who received the Fields Medal and Oswald Veblen Prize...

number of smooth closed immersed minimal surfaces. It is named after Shing-Tung Yau, who posed it as the 88th entry in his 1982 list of open problems in...

and a number of works with Shing-Tung Yau. Many of Cheng and Yau's works formed part of the corpus of work for which Yau was awarded the Fields medal...

Perelman refers particularly to alleged efforts of Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau to downplay Perelman's role in the proof and play up the work of Cao...

Cochran Calculus. "Early Transcendentals." ISBN 978-0-321-57056-7. Yau, Shing-Tung; Nadis, Steve (2010). The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the...

University. He is best known for his collaboration with Bong Lian and Shing-Tung Yau in which they establish some enumerative geometry conjectures motivated...

the case of non-embedded surfaces, both done in collaboration with Shing-Tung Yau. He is an expert on the subject of function theory on complete Riemannian...

and paints an unflattering portrait of the 1982 Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau. Yau has disputed the accuracy of the article and threatened legal action...

string theory. It is named after mathematicians Eugenio Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau. Another approach to reducing the number of dimensions is the so-called...

University Record. "Shing-Tung Yau". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Dennis Overbye (2006-10-17). "SCIENTIST AT WORK – Shing-Tung Yau; The Emperor of Math"...

American mathematician, brother of Shing-Tung Yau Algernon Yau (丘應樺; born 1959), Hong Kong businessperson and polictican Alan Yau (丘德威; born 1962), Hong Kong-born...

differentiable sphere conjecture by Simon Brendle and Richard Schoen. Following Shing-Tung Yau's suggestion[citation needed] that the singularities of solutions of...

County, Guangdong, China. He is the younger brother of Fields Medalist Shing-Tung Yau. After graduating from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he studied...

theory of minimal surfaces and harmonic maps. In 1976, Schoen and Shing-Tung Yau used Yau's earlier Liouville theorems to extend the rigidity phenomena found...

D. in mathematics from Harvard University, under the supervision of Shing-Tung Yau. In 1998, he was appointed as a Cheung Kong Scholar professor at Peking...

{\displaystyle z_{1},z_{2}\in U.} A generalization of this theorem was proved by Shing-Tung Yau in 1973. Osserman, Robert (September 1999). "From Schwarz to Pick to...

Festival in 2001. Calabi-Yau was produced and performed at HERE in 2002. Eugene Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau, for whom Calabi-Yau manifolds are named, attempted...

explains why the gradient estimates due to Shing-Tung Yau (and their developments such as the Cheng-Yau and Li-Yau inequalities) nearly always depend on a...

Richard Schoen and Shing-Tung Yau in the 1970s, and reproved soon after by Edward Witten with different techniques. Schoen and Yau, and independently...

mathematics. Indeed, according to the SYZ conjecture of Andrew Strominger, Shing-Tung Yau, and Eric Zaslow, T-duality is closely related to another duality called...