astronomy

Ngaiming Mok

Ngaiming Mok is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ngaiming Mok rather than just read about it. In short: Ngaiming Mok (Chinese: 莫毅明; pinyin: Mò Yìmíng; born 1956) is a Hong Kong mathematician specializing in complex differential geometry and algebraic geometry. He is currently a professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Key takeaways

Ngaiming Mok belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Ngaiming Mok to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Ngaiming Mok from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ngaiming Mok (Chinese: 莫毅明; pinyin: Mò Yìmíng; born 1956) is a Hong Kong mathematician specializing in complex differential geometry and algebraic geometry. He is currently a professor at the University of Hong Kong. After graduating from St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong in 1975, Mok studied at the University of Chicago and Yale University, obtaining his M.A. in Mathematics from Yale in 1978. He obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University under the guidance of Yum-Tong Siu. He taught at Princeton University, Columbia University and the University of Paris-Saclay before joining the faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 1994. He has been the director of the University of Hong Kong's Institute of Mathematical Research since 1999. The awards Mok has received include a Sloan Fellowship in 1984, the Presidential Young Investigator Award in Mathematics in 1985, and the Stefan Bergman Prize in 2009. Mok was an invited speaker at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich and served on the Fields Medal committee at the 2010 ICM in Hyderabad. He was on the editorial board of Inventiones Mathematicae from 2002 to 2014, and he is currently an editor of Mathematische Annalen. He was elected as Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Division of Mathematics and Physics) in 2015, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2019. In 2023, Mok became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist. Mok is a polyglot, being able to speak Chinese (including Mandarin and Cantonese), English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese and more.

Notable publications Ngaiming Mok. The uniformization theorem for compact Kähler manifolds of nonnegative holomorphic bisectional curvature. J. Differential Geom. 27 (1988), no. 2, 179–214. doi:10.4310/jdg/1214441778 Ngaiming Mok. Metric rigidity theorems on Hermitian locally symmetric manifolds. Series in Pure Mathematics, 6. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., Teaneck, NJ, 1989. xiv+278 pp. ISBN 9971-50-800-1, 9971-50-802-8. doi:10.1142/0773

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ngaiming Mok

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ngaiming Mok claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ngaiming Mok before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ngaiming Mok ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ngaiming Mok

In research: Ngaiming Mok appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ngaiming Mok in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ngaiming Mok is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 births, Academic staff of Paris-Saclay University, Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ngaiming Mok outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Ngaiming Mok in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Ngaiming Mok means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Ngaiming Mok out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Ngaiming Mok in simple terms?

Why does Ngaiming Mok matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Ngaiming Mok?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Ngaiming Mok.