Shing-Tung Yau | |
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Lahir | 04 April 1949 Shantou, Guangdong, Tiongkok |
Kebangsaan | Amerika Serikat (sejak 1990) |
Almamater | Chinese University of Hong Kong (B.A. 1969) University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1971) |
Suami/istri | Yu-yun Kuo |
Anak | 2 |
Penghargaan | John J. Carty Award (1981) Veblen Prize (1981) Fields Medal (1982) Crafoord Prize (1994) National Medal of Science (1997) Wolf Prize (2010) |
Karier ilmiah | |
Bidang | Matematika |
Institusi | Universitas Harvard Universitas Stanford Universitas Stony Brook Institute for Advanced Study |
Pembimbing doktoral | Shiing-Shen Chern |
Mahasiswa doktoral | Richard Schoen (Stanford, 1977) Robert Bartnik (Princeton, 1983) Mark Stern (Princeton, 1984) Huai-Dong Cao (Princeton, 1986) Gang Tian (Harvard, 1988) Jun Li (Stanford, 1989) Lizhen Ji (Northeastern, 1991) Kefeng Liu (Harvard, 1993) Mu-Tao Wang (Harvard, 1998) Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Harvard, 2002) |
Shing-Tung Yau (/jaʊ/; Hanzi: 丘成桐; Pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; lahir 4 April 1949) adalah seorang matematikawan Amerika Serikat dan William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics di Universitas Harvard.[1] Yau lahir di Shantou, Tiongkok, pindah ke Hong Kong pada masa muda, dan ke Amerika Serikat pada 1969.