Shing-Tung Yau (/j/; 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.

Shing-Tung Yau
Lahir04 April 1949 (umur 75)
Shantou, Guangdong, Tiongkok
KebangsaanAmerika Serikat (sejak 1990)
AlmamaterChinese University of Hong Kong (B.A. 1969)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1971)
Suami/istriYu-yun Kuo
Anak2
PenghargaanJohn J. Carty Award (1981)
Veblen Prize (1981)
Fields Medal (1982)
Crafoord Prize (1994)
National Medal of Science (1997)
Wolf Prize (2010)
Karier ilmiah
BidangMatematika
InstitusiUniversitas Harvard
Universitas Stanford
Universitas Stony Brook
Institute for Advanced Study
Pembimbing doktoralShiing-Shen Chern
Mahasiswa doktoralRichard 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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  1. ^ "Questions and answers with Shing-Tung Yau", Physics Today, 11 April 2016.

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