Word: yau
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...Yau, a native of Taiwan, was named one of the 25 annual recipients of the no-strings-attached $500,000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—popularly known as the “genius grant”—and has since made important contributions to the study of quantum mechanics, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics...
...battle to hire Yau away from Stanford was a “tough” one, according to Mathematics Department Chair Joseph D. Harris and other faculty both here and in Palo Alto, Calif...
Harvard’s aggressive pursuit of Yau, which comes two years after the University’s unsuccessful bid to attract Yau from New York University, stemmed from the recognition of a long-running weakness in the mathematics department, according to Harris and others...
...extremely strong analytical skill in partial differential equations and mathematical physics,” said Shing-Tung Yau, Graustein professor of mathematics. “We need to strengthen this area, and he fit in very well...
...Horng-Tzer Yau’s colleagues at Stanford, Professor Rick Schoen, described him as “soft spoken and dynamic.” Another, Stanford Mathematics Department Chair Yakov Eliashberg, said Yau “is a quite reserved person...