Shing-Tung Yau

Shing -Tung Yau (cantonal丘成桐, Yale: Yau1 Sing4 Tung4; Pinyin: Qiu Chengtong; born April 4, 1949 in Shantou, Guangdong ) is a Chinese - American mathematician who in the field of differential geometry, in particular, the Calabi -Yau manifolds works. In 1982, the Fields Medal he was awarded.

Life

Yau grew up in a family with six siblings, his ancestors lived in Jiaoling ( in Guangdong). His father died when he was 14 years old. He went with his family to Hong Kong and studied from 1966 to 1969 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong mathematics. For his doctorate, he went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a doctorate in Shiing - Shen Chern 1971. He then went as a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and spent two years as assistant professor at Stony Brook University. In 1974 he became a professor at Stanford University. In 1979 he returned to the Institute for Advanced Study, and was from 1984 to 1987 professor at the University of California, San Diego. Since 1987 he is a professor at Harvard University.

In 1977 he proved a conjecture of Eugenio Calabi of 1954 that Kähler manifolds with vanishing first Chern class Ricci - flat metrics have ( ie vanishing Ricci curvature ). This was named after him and Calabi manifolds play an important role in string theory.

In 1979 he proved with his Ph.D. student Richard Schoen the positivity of energy in general relativity theory.

In the 1990s, he made ​​important contributions to mathematically rigorous justification of mirror symmetry (mirror -symmetry ) of Calabi -Yau manifolds, which was first discovered by physicists in string theory in 1991 (about the same time as Alexander Givental ).

He was also the chief organizer of Strings 2006, an international conference on string theory, which was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Its English name comes from the Cantonese language.

Writings

  • Publisher Leung Geometry of special holonomy and related topics, International Press 2011
  • Publisher with Wolpert, Geometry of Riemann surfaces Li and Their moduli spaces, International Press 2009
  • Publisher with Gu Computational Conformal Geometry, International Press 2008
  • Publisher with Cao Geometric Flows, International Press 2008
  • Tsing Hua Lectures on Geometry and Analysis, International Press 1997
  • Publisher Differential Geometry inspired by String Theory, International Press 1999
  • Publisher Essays on Mirror Manifolds, International Press 1992
  • Publisher Mathematical Aspects of String Theory, World Scientific 1987

Awards

Yau received several major awards. Among other things, the Fields Medal (1982 ), a MacArthur Fellowship ( 1985), the Oswald Veblen - Prize ( 1981), the Crafoord Prize (1994 ), and the National Medal of Science ( 1997). In 1978 he gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Helsinki ( The Role of Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry ). In 2010 he received the Wolf Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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