1949 - Today
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, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 314 out of 823. Before 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.
1859 - 1942
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 308
1934 - 2007
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 309
1530 - 1590
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 310
1908 - 1988
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 311
1494 - 1555
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 312
1877 - 1938
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 313
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 314
1915 - 2008
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 315
1797 - 1886
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 316
940 - 1000
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 317
1903 - 1930
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 318
1893 - 1978
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 319
1859 - 1906
HPI: 54.85
Rank: 320
Among people born in 1949, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 148. Before 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.
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 142
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 143
1949 - 2021
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 144
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 145
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.06
Rank: 146
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.05
Rank: 147
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 148
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 149
1949 - 2017
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 150
1949 - 2011
HPI: 54.91
Rank: 151
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.86
Rank: 152
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.81
Rank: 153
1949 - Present
HPI: 54.80
Rank: 154
Among people born in China, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 536 out of 1,392. Before 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).
1900 - 1976
HPI: 55.21
Rank: 530
1574 - 1645
HPI: 55.17
Rank: 531
1962 - Present
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 532
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 533
1910 - 2009
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 534
483 - 515
HPI: 55.04
Rank: 535
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 536
600 - 673
HPI: 55.01
Rank: 537
1758 - 1804
HPI: 55.00
Rank: 538
226 - 249
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 539
1961 - Present
HPI: 54.97
Rank: 540
400 BC - 400 BC
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 541
937 - 978
HPI: 54.95
Rank: 542
Among mathematicians born in China, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 10. Before 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).
27 - 97
HPI: 60.49
Rank: 4
1562 - 1633
HPI: 58.80
Rank: 5
50 BC - 23
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 6
1911 - 2004
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 7
1231 - 1316
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 8
683 - 727
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 9
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.03
Rank: 10
1238 - 1298
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 11
1249 - 1314
HPI: 53.46
Rank: 12
1201 - 1261
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 13
1933 - 1996
HPI: 49.56
Rank: 14
1724 - 1777
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 15
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.47
Rank: 16