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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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人生几何？几何人生！ 丘，孔子的名，数学家丘成桐的姓。他的姓和孔子的名雷同外，也在学习中深受孔圣的启迪。孔子强调“只有努力学习才能获得真知。”他的真知灼见丘成桐教授领悟得十分深刻，并且一生都在践行。 他出生于中国，成长于汕头，成长于中国香港，后卦美国深造并在...
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评分 评分 评分 评分##1 不知道是不是大约十年前Yau和Nadis的那本《The shape of inner space》反响不错，随后Yau又和Nadis合作写了这本《The shape of my life》。如果说第一本算是一本关于Calabi-Yau和string theory的科普之作，那么这一本就完完全全是一本关于Yau的自传。当然，以Yau波澜壮阔的经...
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