Shing-Tung Yau
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Dissertation: On the Fundamental Group of Compact Manifolds of Non-positive Curvature
Advisor 1: Shiing-Shen Chern
Advisor 2: H. Blaine (Herbert) Lawson, Jr.
Students:
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bando, Shigetoshi | Princeton University | ||
| Bartnik, Robert | Princeton University | 6 | |
| Cao, Huai-Dong | Princeton University | 14 | |
| Chen, Bing-Long | Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
| Chen, Jiun-Cheng | Harvard University | ||
| Chen, Po-Ning | Harvard University | 1 | |
| Cheng, Hsiao-Bing | Harvard University | ||
| Cheng, Hsiao-Bing | Harvard University | ||
| Chi, Chen-Yu | Harvard University | ||
| Chow, Bennett | Princeton University | 29 | |
| Chuan, Ming-Tao | Harvard University | ||
| Dai, Junfei | Zhejiang University | ||
| Dong, Rui-Tao | University of California, San Diego | ||
| Dong, Xinhan | Chinese University of Hong Kong | ||
| Doran, Charles | Harvard University | 17 | |
| Fan, Yu-Wei | Harvard University | ||
| Fei, Teng | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
| Freire, Alex | Princeton University | 2 | |
| Gu, Xianfeng | Harvard University
Shing-Tung YauShing-Tung Yau was the fifth of the eight children of his parents Chen Ying Chiou and Yeuk-Lam Leung Chiou. He has a younger brother Stephen Shing-Toung Yau (born ) who is also an exceptional mathematician. His father was an economist and philosopher working in southern China when Yau was born. However, by late the Communists were in control of almost all of China and Yau's family fled to Hong Kong where his father obtained a position teaching at a College. (The College later became a part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.) In the interview [76] Yau gives more details:-
My father went to Japan to study economics, but he came back to help the Chinese defend themselves before the Japanese invaded in By the end of the war he was distributing food and clothes to the poor for the U.N. After the revolution in , he worried about getting in trouble with the Communists, so he brought the whole family to Hong Kong. We were very poor - at first we were almost starving - but my father had a large group of students constantly at home to talk about philosophy and literature. I was 10, 11, 12 years old, and I grew accustomed to abstract reasoning. My father made us memo |