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...

California, San Diego in the mid-1980s, joining Richard Schoen and Shing-Tung Yau in the group working on geometric analysis. In 1998, Hamilton became...

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...

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)...

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...

complex manifolds, made by Eugenio Calabi (1954, 1957). It was proved by Shing-Tung Yau (1977, 1978), who received the Fields Medal and Oswald Veblen Prize...