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According to the Wolf Foundation’s website, Yau will officially receive his award from Israeli President Shimon Peres and Israeli Education Minister and Wolf Foundation Council Chairman Gideon Sa’ar at a ceremony in Jerusalem this...
...Yau said in an e-mailed statement that two of the “greatest Chinese mathematicians” studied and taught at Tsinghua University, including Shiing-Shen Chern, who served as Yau’s mentor while at the University of California, Berkeley...
...Yau added that he hopes that the fund, which will bear his name, will help the university’s students “achieve high scholarship” so “that they may [also] be awarded the Wolf Prize in the future...
...Yau, who received the award for his contributions to the creation of the field of geometric analysis, is credited with solving several significant conjectures in geometry, topology, and mathematical physics...
Stony Brook University Professor Dennis P. Sullivan, who shares this year’s prize for mathematics with Yau, will also be recognized during the upcoming ceremony for his work in algebraic topology and conformal dynamics...