Talk:Shing-Tung Yau

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[edit] Name

Why is his name not in hanyu pinyin is he was from mainland china? --Jiang 05:12, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I guess that's becuase cantonese is his mother tongue.--160.39.177.149 02:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
Yes, but more precisely because he got the anglicization in Hong Kong, where he was raised.


I found the last sentence of this bio -- Yau gave a controversial lecture on the proof of the Poincaré conjecture which may have influenced Grigory Perelman's decision to decline the Field's Medal -- troublesome. Is there any evidence backing this statement.

An encyclopedia should provide facts rather than conjectures.

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There is evidence for the above statement, see New Yorker article in external links below. 69.128.160.77 12:07, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Um, yeah. The statement regarding Poincare, Perelman etc. featured a reference to a lengthy, well-researched, published article discussing the matter in detail. How bizarre that someone would delete a well sourced statement, not even bother to check the reference, and then whine about facts and evidence etc. --GaeusOctavius 18:54, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Yorker Article

Yau is suing the Nasar, Gruber and the fact checker at the New Yorker for defamation. It should have been pretty clear to anybody reading this article that it was highly opinionated and approaching defamation. The fact that it has been used so uncritically in wikipedia is quite disturbing.

Um, actually he hasn't sued them yet, he has demanded a retraction and apology, and he has retained a lawyer. If his allegations prove true it will indeed be disturbing for the New Yorker's reputation, but I don't think you can blame Wikipedia.--GaeusOctavius 00:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] On why Yau's recent attempt to derogate Perelman's should be included in the article

I would like to express my respect to the people who have created the article of Yau, after all he has huge contributions to mathematics. Yet, he is human, and thus suffers all lusty passions that humans might have, including envy, and usurpation of someone's elses right. This happened in extremely high level considering the recent amazing work done by Grigori Perelman on proving the Thurston's geometrization conjecture and thus the Poincaré conjecture. Yau also abused his position as editor in the Asian Journal of Mathematics and this should be also put in his biography. In Wikipedia are reflected all important facts, including biographies of serial killers, and other crimes. Yau's unsuccessful attempt is extremely prominent unethical behavior, which obviously affected Perelman's life, since Perelman is currently unemployed and quited mathematics after this Chinese attempt to derogate his achievement.

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I hope wiki-editors will vote for, and include these data in Yau's biography. Regards, Danko Georgiev MD 02:13, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

p.s. As a reply to the commentaries above my post, which discuss that possibly Yau is not the cause for Perelman's decision, please read the following article which is in Russian. Exactly because of this derogative Chinese attack, look where he lives [at least photos speak of themselves]. It is quite conceivable that if there are only couple of people who can understand his math work, NOBODY can defend him because of proper understanding that Perelman is right, but the opinion should be based on factors that do not take mathematics into account. This is what makes Perelman feel sorrow, and that is why he declined the Fields medal, in an intreview he said that the mathematicians that give him the award are NOT competent to do that, because they do NOT understand his work. http://zhizn.ru/article/society/3659/ Danko Georgiev MD 07:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

For those who don't read Russian, the article referenced above by Danko Georgiev MD is a terrible piece of journalism. It portrays Perelman as a paranoid weirdo and contains a lot of factual mistakes. --206.169.169.1 23:51, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

The article is correct on one thing - and this is where Perelman lives, and the photos clearly show how Perelman looks like. The New Yorker article clearly shows that the Perelman's choice to quit mathematics is result from Yau's immoral attempt to steal Perelman's credits Nasar, Sylvia, Gruber, David. "Manifold Destiny: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it.", The New Yorker, 21 August 2006. So what I have stated is that Perelman suffers because of Yau's immoral action, otherwise Perelman would not quit the Steklov institute. Whether the russian article is bad journalism is not relevant. The russian article however clearly shows in what misery Perelman lives now, because photos are real. Regards, Danko Georgiev MD 08:51, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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