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Shing-Tung Yau

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Excerpt of 2021 Science Talk: Speech by Professor Shing-Tung Yau

 

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HLFF Shortcuts: Shing-Tung Yau

 

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Shing-Tung Yau - 1997 National Medal of Science

 

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Lunar New Year Greetings from Danny Chen, Shing-Tung Yau

 

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Shing-Tung Yau- National Medal of Science 1997

Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese and naturalized American mathematician. He was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal for his mathematical research in 1982. He is currently the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.
  • Personal 

  • Biography 

  • Academic activities 

  • Technical contributions to mathematics 

  • Calabi conjecture 

  • Scalar curvature and general relativity 

  • Omori−Yau maximum principle 

  • Differential Harnack inequalities 

  • Donaldson−Uhlenbeck−Yau theorem 

  • Geometric variational problems 

  • Geometric rigidity theorems 

  • Minkowski problem and Monge–Ampère equation 

  • Mirror symmetry 

  • Comparison geometry 

  • Spectral geometry 

  • Discrete and computational geometry