How Shing-Tung Yau rose from poverty to become China’s first Fields Medalist

How Shing-Tung Yau rose from poverty to become China’s first Fields Medalist
Raised in a two-room shack beside a pig pen, Shing-Tung Yau defied a childhood of poverty to become the first Chinese winner of the Fields Medal and one of the world’s most influential mathematicians.