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)...

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...

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

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