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...

string theory. It is named after mathematicians Eugenio Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau. Another approach to reducing the number of dimensions is the so-called...

Perelman refers particularly to alleged efforts of Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau to downplay Perelman's role in the proof and play up the work of Cao...

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...

infinitely many smooth closed immersed minimal surfaces. It is named after Shing-Tung Yau, who posed it as the 88th entry in his 1982 list of open problems in...

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)...

556–560. doi:10.1007/BF01140282. S2CID 119764156. Yau, Shing Tung (1982). "Problem section". In Yau, Shing-Tung (ed.). Seminar on Differential Geometry. Annals...

researchers. Vershik's comments were later echoed by Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau, who was additionally critical of the idea of a foundation taking actions...