The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shing-Tung Yau sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 1,043 publications — 100th percentile
100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shing-Tung Yau sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 122 D-Index — 100th percentile
100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.
Shing-Tung Yau is affiliated with Tsinghua University in China and has an extensive record of research primarily in mathematics and physics. Their work spans multiple highly specialized fields, with a focus on geometry and topology, astronomy and astrophysics, mathematical physics, nuclear and high energy physics, and applied mathematics.
The central themes in their research encompass black holes and theoretical physics, geometry and complex manifolds, cosmology and gravitation theories, geometric analysis and curvature flows, algebraic geometry and number theory, advanced algebra and geometry, and homotopy and cohomology in algebraic topology.
The scientist's recent published papers include the following:
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Shing-Tung Yau has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Fields Medal awarded by the International Mathematical Union in 1982 for contributions in differential equations, the Calabi conjecture in algebraic geometry, the positive mass conjecture of general relativity theory, and Monge-Ampère equations.
Other distinctions include the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010 for work in geometric analysis affecting geometry and physics, the US President's National Medal of Science in 1997, Fellowships from the American Mathematical Society (2013), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993), the MacArthur Foundation (1985), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1980), and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1974). They were also elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
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