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Shing-Tung Yau

1949 - Today

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Shing-Tung Yau (; Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; born April 4, 1949) is a Chinese-American mathematician. He is the director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022 he was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at which point he moved to Tsinghua.Yau was born in Swatow, Canton, Republic of China, moved to British Hong Kong at a young age, and then moved to the United States in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shing-Tung Yau has received more than 771,563 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Shing-Tung Yau is the 314th most popular mathematician (up from 356th in 2019), the 536th most popular biography from China (up from 558th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Chinese Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 314 out of 823Before him are Georg Alexander Pick, Paul Cohen, Giambattista Benedetti, Lev Pontryagin, Oronce Finé, and Edmund Landau. After him are Kiyosi Itô, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Frank P. Ramsey, Gaston Julia, and Ernesto Cesàro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 148Before him are Georges Leekens, Leslie Easterbrook, Alexander Gradsky, Alice Walton, Pam Grier, and Patrick Hernandez. After him are Keith Carradine, Manuel Marín, Christopher Hitchens, Francis Rossi, Zoë Wanamaker, and Anne Schedeen.

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In China

Among people born in China, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 536 out of 1,392Before him are Zhang Wentian (1900), Feng Menglong (1574), Peng Liyuan (1962), Morris Chang (1931), Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme (1910), and Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei (483). After him are Yan Liben (600), 8th Dalai Lama (1758), Wang Bi (226), Joan Chen (1961), Gan De (-400), and Li Yu (937).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In China

Among mathematicians born in China, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 10Before him are Wang Chong (27), Xu Guangqi (1562), Liu Xin (-50), Shiing-Shen Chern (1911), Guo Shoujing (1231), and Yi Xing (683). After him are Yang Hui (1238), Zhu Shijie (1249), Qin Jiushao (1201), Chen Jingrun (1933), Dai Zhen (1724), and Yitang Zhang (1955).