The Honorary Guest
Shing-Tung Yau
Born: | April 4, 1949 Swatow, China |
Residence: | United States |
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Doctoral advisor: | Shiing-Shen Chern |
Doctoral students: | 43 PhD students |
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The Fields Medal in 1983 "for his contributions to partial differential equations, to the Calabi conjecture in algebraic geometry, to the positive mass conjecture of general relativity theory, and to real and complex Monge-Ampere equations"