The shape of a life one mathematician's search for the universe's hidden geometry
A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape--the Calabi-Yau manifold--that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insigh...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
[2019], 2019
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; 1 Itinerant Youth; 2 Life Goes On; 3 Coming to America; 4 In the Foothills of Mount Calabi; 5 The March to the Summit; 6 The Road to Jiaoling; 7 A Special Year; 8 Strings and Waves in Sunny San Diego; 9 Harvard Bound; 10 Getting Centered; 11 Beyond Poincaré; 12 Between Two Cultures; Epilogue; Index