Horng-Tzer Yau
Horng-Tzer Yau | |
|---|---|
| 姚鴻澤 | |
Yau at Oberwolfach, 2011 | |
| Born | 1959 (age 65–66) Taiwan |
| Alma mater | National Taiwan University (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematical physics |
| Institutions | New York University Stanford University Harvard University |
| Thesis | Stability of Coulomb Systems (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Elliott H. Lieb |
Horng-Tzer Yau (Chinese: 姚鴻澤; pinyin: Yáo Hóngzé; born 1959) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician who is the Merton Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University.
Early life and education
Yau was born in 1959 in Taiwan, where he began studying advanced calculus and college algebra in high school.[1] He graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in 1981 and earned his Ph.D. in 1987 from Princeton University. His doctoral dissertation, "Stability of Coulomb Systems," was completed under the supervision of mathematical physicist Elliott Lieb.[2]
Academic career
Yau joined the faculty of NYU in 1988, and became a full professor at its Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1994. He moved to Stanford in 2003, and then to Harvard University in 2005. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1987–88, 1991–92, and 2003, and was a distinguished visiting professor in 2013–14.[3]
According to William C. Kirby, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, "Professor Yau is a leader in the fields of mathematical physics, ... who has introduced important tools and concepts to study probability, stochastic processes, nonequilibrium statistical physics, and quantum dynamics."[4]
Yau is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow.
Honors
- Simons Investigator Award[5]
- Sloan Foundation Fellowship
- Packard Foundation Fellowship, 1991
- International Congress of Mathematicians, 1998[6]
- Henri Poincaré Prize, 2000
- MacArthur Fellowship, 2000[7]
- Morningside Gold Medal of Mathematics, 2001[8]
- Academician of the Academia Sinica, 2002[9]
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences[10]
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012[11]
- Simons Investigator, 2012[12]
- Editor-in-Chief of Communications in Mathematical Physics
- Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics & Physics, 2017[13]
- Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research of the AMS, 2026[14]
References
- ^ Brustman, Bob (March 2, 2006). "Yau travels down the road less taken". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved October 26, 2025.
- ^ Horng-Tzer Yau at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Horng-Tzer Yau". Institute for Advanced Study (ias.edu). December 9, 2019.
- ^ Harvard University Gazette April 14, 2005
- ^ 2012 Simons Investigators September 2012
- ^ Yau, Horng-Tzer (1998). "Scaling limit of particle systems, incompressible Navier-Stokes equation and Boltzmann equations". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 193–202.
- ^ H.-T. Yau Receives MacArthur Fellowship October 2000
- ^ Notices of the AMS May 2002
- ^ "Horng-Tzer Yau". Academia Sinica. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
- ^ News from the National Academy of Sciences Archived April 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine April 2013
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved September 1, 2013.
- ^ Simons Investigators Awardees, The Simons Foundation
- ^ "Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics".
- ^ Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research 2026