PEOPLE & POINTS

MATH GENIUS JOINS TSINGHUA

Prominent Chinese-American mathematician Yau Shing-Tung has announced his retirement from his position at Harvard University, to teach fulltime at Tsinghua University in Beijing, aiming to help China become a math powerhouse within the coming decade.

Born in 1949 in Shantou, Guangdong Province, Yau became the first Chinese-American winner of the Fields Medal, regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, in 1982. He is considered one of the major contributors to the development of modern differential geometry and geometric analysis.

Yau has been dedicated to improving China’s mathematics education. Over the years,