Shing-Tung Yau Ph.D.
Shing-Tung Yau Ph.D.
National Medal of Science – Mathematics and Computer Science 1997
Name: Shing-Tung Yau
Birth: 4 April, 1949, China
Title: Professor of Mathematics
Affiliation: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Citation: “For his fundamental contributions in mathematics and physics. Through his work, the understanding of basic geometric differential equations has been changed and he has expanded their role enormously within mathematics.”
Ph.D. Advisor: Shiing-Shen Chern, University of California, Berkeley, 1971
Family fled mainland China and Communist takeover when he was an infant. Leader of street gang and often skipped school.
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