Paul C. Yang

Paul C. Yang
Known for	Differential geometry Partial differential equations
Spouse	Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Awards	Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University

Paul C. Yang (Chinese: 杨建平; pinyin: Yáng Jiàn Píng; Wade–Giles: Chien-Ping Yang ,¹⁹⁴⁷ in Changhua, Taiwan) is a Chinese-American mathematician specializing in differential geometry and partial differential equations. He is best known for his work in conformal geometry, his study of extremal metrics and his research on scalar curvature and Q-curvature.

Career

Yang earned his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 under the supervision of Hung-Hsi Wu. He held positions at Rice University, the University of Maryland, Indiana University and the University of Southern California before joining Princeton University in 2001.

Awards and honors

Yang was a Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1981. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Selected publications

• Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Conformal deformation of metrics on $S^{2}$. J. Differential Geom. 27 (1988), no. 2, 259–296.
• Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Prescribing Gaussian curvature on $S^{2}$. Acta Math. 159 (1987), no. 3-4, 215–259.
• Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Extremal metrics of zeta function determinants on 4-manifolds. Ann. of Math. (2) 142 (1995), no. 1, 171–212.
• Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Gursky, Matthew J.; Yang, Paul C. The scalar curvature equation on 2- and 3-spheres. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 1 (1993), no. 2, 205–229.
• Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Gursky, Matthew J.; Yang, Paul C. An equation of Monge-Ampère type in conformal geometry, and four-manifolds of positive Ricci curvature. Ann. of Math. (2) 155 (2002), no. 3, 709–787.
• Yang, Paul C.; Yau, Shing-Tung Eigenvalues of the Laplacian of compact Riemann surfaces and minimal submanifolds. Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4) 7 (1980), no. 1, 55–63.