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. Yau lahir di Shantou, Tiongkok, pindah ke Hong Kong pada masa muda, dan ke Amerika Serikat pada 1969.
| Shing-Tung Yau | |
|---|---|
| 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 University of California, San Diego |
| 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) |
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Referensi sunting
- "Questions and answers with Shing-Tung Yau", Physics Today, 11 April 2016.
Pranala luar sunting
- Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University: commentary by various mathematicians on Yau
- Discover Magazine Interview, June 2010 issue
- Interview 2021-12-06 di Wayback Machine. (11 pages long in Traditional Chinese)
- (mostly English, some Chinese)
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. Shing-Tung Yau di MacTutor archive.
- Shing-Tung Yau di Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Plugging A Math Gap 2016-05-13 di Wayback Machine.