Shing-Tung Yau 丘成桐 is a Chinese-born naturalized American mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. He is currently the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.
Yau was born in Shantou, Guangdong, China with Hakka ancestry in Jiaoling County. He has seven siblings, including Stephen Shing-Toung Yau, also a mathematician. When he was only a few months old, his family moved to Hong Kong. Yau's father, Yau Chenying, was a philosophy professor. Under the influence of his father, Yau acquired broad knowledge of classical Chinese literature and history, which resulted in an essay On Mathematics and Chinese literature (數學和中國文學的比較), with reference to Dream of the Red Chamber and Wang Guowei, explaining the structural relationship between mathematics and Chinese literature, published in 2006.
After graduating from Pui Ching Middle School, he studied mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1966 to 1969. Yau left for the University of California, Berkeley in the fall of 1969, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics two years later, under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern. He spent a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton before joining Stony Brook University in 1972 as an assistant professor. In 1974, he became an associate professor at Stanford University.
From 1984 to 1987 he worked at University of California, San Diego. Since 1987, he has been at Harvard University. Wikipedia
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