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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 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Shing-Tung Yau is the 273rd most popular mathematician (up from 314th in 2019), the 512th most popular biography from China (up from 535th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chinese Mathematician.

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  • 57.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Shing-Tung Yau has had the most page views in the with 105,384 views, followed by Chinese (87,076), and Russian (12,332). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Greek (172.40%), Cornish (171.00%), and Belarusian (104.66%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 273 out of 1,004. Before him are John Wilkins, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Atle Selberg, Karen Uhlenbeck, and Charles-Eugène Delaunay. After him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Paul Cohen, Lev Pontryagin, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, and George Atwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 135. Before him are Marc Ravalomanana, Ariel Henry, Slavenka Drakulić, Ken Wilber, Tom Pryce, and Manuel Orantes. After him are Michael Houghton, Alexander Godunov, Billy Gibbons, Robert Sternberg, Patrick Duffy, and Jeremy Corbyn.

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In China

Among people born in China, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 512 out of 1,610. Before him are Zhang Chunqiao (1917), Mao Dun (1896), Cao Kun (1862), Zhu Yujian (1602), Chen Kaige (1952), and Gan Ying (100). After him are Yesün Temür (1293), Li Yu (1610), Chen Youliang (1320), Morris Chang (1931), Du Yuesheng (1888), and Feng Guozhang (1859).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In China

Among mathematicians born in China, Shing-Tung Yau ranks 7. Before him are Zhang Heng (78), Zu Chongzhi (429), Liu Hui (225), Wang Chong (27), Xu Guangqi (1562), and Guo Shoujing (1231). After him are Yi Xing (683), Liu Xin (-50), Shiing-Shen Chern (1911), Zhu Shijie (1249), Qin Jiushao (1201), and Yang Hui (1238).

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