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Shing-Tung Yau is the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He has been awarded a Fields Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Crafoord Prize, the Veblen Prize, and other honors.
Steve Nadis is a science writer and contributing editor to Astronomy and Discover magazines.
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 insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable journey to becoming one of the world’s most distinguished mathematicians. Beginning with an impoverished childhood in China and Hong Kong, Yau takes readers through his doctoral studies at Berkeley during the height of the Vietnam War protests, his Fields Medal–winning proof of the Calabi conjecture, his return to China, and his pioneering work in geometric analysis. This new branch of geometry, which Yau built up with his friends and colleagues, has paved the way for solutions to several important and previously intransigent problems. With complicated ideas explained for a broad audience, this book offers readers not only insights into the life of an eminent mathematician, but also an accessible way to understand advanced and highly abstract concepts in mathematics and theoretical physics.
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##”對我來說，數學賦予我的，是一本讓我在世界各處隨意走動的護照，同時也是探索這世界強而有力的工具。幾十年來我研究學問，處世為人，屢敗屢進，未曾氣餒。我一聲從未放棄追尋至真至美”。丘公應該就是太史公所謂的倜儻非常之人吧。科學和藝術，一個求真，一個求美，而真和美...
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評分##看瞭 chapter 1，2，一半3
評分##”對我來說，數學賦予我的，是一本讓我在世界各處隨意走動的護照，同時也是探索這世界強而有力的工具。幾十年來我研究學問，處世為人，屢敗屢進，未曾氣餒。我一聲從未放棄追尋至真至美”。丘公應該就是太史公所謂的倜儻非常之人吧。科學和藝術，一個求真，一個求美，而真和美...
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