Paul C. Yang
Paul C. Yang | |
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Known for | Differential geometry Partial differential equations |
Spouse | Sun-Yung Alice Chang |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Rice University University of Maryland Indiana University University of Southern California Princeton University |
Doctoral advisor | Hung-Hsi Wu |
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((Chinese: 伍鴻熙; pinyin: Wǔ hóngxīg; Wade–Giles: Paul C. Yang ,) ).[1] He held positions at Rice University, the University of Maryland, Indiana University and the University of Southern California before joining Princeton University in 2001.[2]
Awards and honors
Yang was a Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1981.[2] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]
Selected publications
- Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Conformal deformation of metrics on . J. Differential Geom. 27 (1988), no. 2, 259–296.
- Chang, Sun-Yung A.; Yang, Paul C. Prescribing Gaussian curvature on . 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.
References
- ^ Paul Yang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Princeton:Professor Yang". Retrieved Mar 10, 2015.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Rice University faculty
- University of Maryland, College Park faculty
- Indiana University faculty
- University of Southern California faculty
- Princeton University faculty
- American people of Chinese descent
- Differential geometers
- Chinese mathematicians
- People from Changhua County