Name Paul Yang | ||
Known for Differential geometryPartial differential equations Notable awards Fellow of the American Mathematical Society |
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.
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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
References
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