# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-c-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:41.676Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-c-yang"
name: "Paul C. Yang"
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description: "Paul C. Yang 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 CR Geometry he is known for his work on the CR embedding problem, the CR Paneitz operator\nand for introducing the Q' curvature in CR Geometry."
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birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump