Shing-tung yau google scholar

I was born in Shantou, a small town in southern China in 1949. Before long, my father Chiu Chin Yin brought the family to Hong Kong to flee the civil war, where I grew up in the farming villages in the New Territories.

My father earned his living by lecturing in several colleges simultaneously. The income was meagre and life was hard. Being a traditional scholar, he had high expectations for his children. From an early age I was taught literature and history. I was asked to recite poems and practise calligraphy regularly. This early training sparked my interest in literature and history lasting for a lifetime. My father would gather students at home to discuss various issues on Chinese and Greek philosophy. Although their discussions were far beyond my grasp, those abstract notions deeply impressed me, and had a direct bearing on my future interest in mathematics.

I went to Pui Ching Middle School, a secondary school famous for science subjects. In Grade 8 we learned Euclidean geometry. I was amazed to find that so many beautiful and ingenious re

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