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  1. Shing-Tung Yau (/ j aʊ /; 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, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at ...

  2. Sep 27, 2006 · Acording to Harvard mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, the first time journalist Sylvia Nasar got in touch with him for a story she was writing for the New Yorker, she told him she was interested...

  3. Jan 11, 2024 · This internationally renowned institution, which brings together distinguished mathematicians from around the world, is named after Shing-Tung Yau, an eminent mathematician of Chinese descent. He is among the top scholars who came to China to teach and conduct academic research in recent years.

  4. Nov 12, 2023 · Shing-Tung Yau - The Shaw Prize. I was born in Shantou, a small town in southern China in 1949. Before long, my father Chiu Chin Yin brought the family to Hong Kong to flee the civil war, where I grew up in the farming villages in the New Territories. My father earned his living by lecturing in several colleges simultaneously.

  5. Mar 23, 2019 · I just finished reading The Shape of a Life, which is the great geometer Shing-Tung Yau’s autobiography, co-authored with Steve Nadis. It’s quite fascinating, and an essential read for anyone interested in the history of modern mathematics.

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  6. Aug 28, 2006 · David Gruber and Sylvia Nasar on the math world’s war over who solved the Poincaré conjecture. Among the contenders are Shing-Tung Yau and Grigory Perelman.

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  8. 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, 1949....

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