Shing-Tung Yau received the Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw in 1982 for his work in global differential geometry and elliptic partial differential equations, particularly for solving such difficult problems as the Calabi conjecture of 1954, and a problem of Hermann Minkowski in Euclidean spaces concerning the Dirichlet problem for the real Monge–Ampère equation.
Year 2000 problem | Minkowski space | Waring's problem | The Final Problem | The Problem with Popplers | Minkowski | Hume and the Problem of Causation | Eugène Minkowski | Dirichlet problem | Boolean satisfiability problem | The Dog Problem | Tammes problem | Species problem | problem solving | Problem gambling | Packing problem | packing problem | chess problem | Znám's problem | Year 10,000 problem | Yamabe problem | Weber problem | Undecidable problem | Travelling salesman problem | travelling salesman problem | The Problem of Thor Bridge | The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century | The Problem of Social Cost | Tarski's circle squaring problem | Steiner tree problem |