Paul C. Yang

Paul C. Yang (Chinese: 杨建平; pinyin: Yáng Jiàn Píng; Wade–Giles: Chien-Ping Yang ,1947 in Changhua, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American mathematician specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and CR manifolds.

He is best known for his work in Conformal geometry for his study of extremal metrics and his research on scalar curvature and Q-curvature.

in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.

He then earned his doctorate from Berkeley in 1973 under the supervision of Hung-Hsi Wu(Chinese: 伍鴻熙).

[2] Yang was a Sloan Foundation Fellow in 1981.