# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horng-tzer-yau
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:13:51.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horng-tzer-yau"
name: "Horng-Tzer Yau"
slug: "horng-tzer-yau"
description: "Horng-Tzer Yau is a Taiwanese-American mathematician who is the Merton Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University."
tagline: "American mathematician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Horng-Tzer_Yau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.46
  momentum:             10
  historical:           6.369945333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "姚鴻澤"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "هورنج تزير ياو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horng-Tzer_Yau"
    title: "Horng-Tzer Yau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horng-Tzer_Yau"
    title: "Horng-Tzer Yau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horng-Tzer_Yau"
    title: "Horng-Tzer Yau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horng-Tzer_Yau"
    title: "Horng-Tzer Yau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horng-Tzer_Yau"
    title: "Horng-Tzer Yau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1628464"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump