Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau

male, 60 years old
Stanford University faculty, Chaoshanese, University of California, San Diego faculty, scientist, Harvard University faculty, University of California, Berkeley alumni…differentialgeometry, Differential geometer
Shing-Tung Yau (born April 4, 1949) is a prominent mathematician working in differential geometry, and involved in the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

male, deceased (1855)
magnetism, electricity, Electrostatics, Gauß, Lutheran, From Braunschweig…Differential geometer, differentialgeometry
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss or Gauß (30 April 1777 - 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist of profound genius who c...
Bernhard Riemann

Bernhard Riemann

male, deceased (1866) (Guadeloupe)
from Lower Saxony, differentialgeometry, mathematician, German, Differential geometer, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (pronounced "REE mahn" or in ; September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866) was a German mathematician who made important...
Michael Spivak

Michael Spivak

male
ordered field, Universidad de Guanajuato, differentialgeometry, Real numbers, Morse theory, The Hitchhiker's Guide to Calculus…Differential geometer
Michael David Spivak is a mathematician specializing in differential geometry, an expositor of mathematics, and the founder of Publish-or-Perish...

Élie Cartan

male, deceased (1951)
Fellow of the Royal Society, mathematician, Alumni of the École Normale Supérieure, Differential geometer, French, mathematical physics…differentialgeometry
Élie Joseph Cartan was an influential French mathematician, who did fundamental work in the theory of Lie groups and their geometric applications. H...
Nigel Hitchin

Nigel Hitchin

male, 63 years old
Wolfson College, D.Phil., Wolfson College, Oxford, Jesus College, Oxford, Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford, Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford…Savilian chair of geometry, differentialgeometry, Differential geometer, algebraic geometry
Nigel Hitchin (b. August 2 1946 in Holbrook, Derbyshire) is a British mathematician working in the field of differential geometry and algebraic...

Phillip Griffiths

male, 71 years old
Duke University faculty, Princeton University alumni, complex number, partial differential equations, complex manifold, Joe Harris…Principles of Algebraic Geometry, differentialgeometry, algebraic geometry, geometry
Phillip Griffiths (born 1938) is a American mathematician, known for his work in the field of geometry, and in particular for the complex manifold...
Shlomo Sternberg

Shlomo Sternberg

male
G-structure, differentialgeometry, Doctor of Philosophy, Differential geometer, Harvard University faculty, Johns Hopkins University alumni…symplectic geometry
Shlomo Zvi Sternberg is a leading mathematician, known for his work in geometry, particularly symplectic geometry and the differential geometry of...
Thomas Banchoff

Thomas Banchoff

male (Rhode Island, United States)
mathematician, Differential geometer, Brown University faculty, mathematics, differentialgeometry, geometry
Thomas F. Banchoff is a geometer, and a professor at Brown University since 1967. During the fall semester, 2008, he is teaching Math 35 , "Honors...
Jeff Cheeger

Jeff Cheeger

male, 66 years old
New York University, professor, mathematician, Harvard University alumni, American, topology…differentialgeometry
Jeff Cheeger (b. December 1, 1943, Brooklyn, New York City), is a mathematician. Cheeger is professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical...