The Shape of a Life
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape, the Calabi-Yau manifold, which may store the hidden dimensions of our universe
Shing-Tung Yau Books
Shing-Tung Yau is a distinguished mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential and complex geometry. His research has yielded fundamental advances across numerous fields in both mathematics and physics, including string theory and general relativity. Yau is celebrated for his ability to tackle profound problems and connect seemingly disparate mathematical concepts. His contributions to mathematics are significant and continue to inspire new generations of scholars.
The Shape of Inner Space
String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist, argues that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is also fundamental to the very nature of our universe.Time and again, where Yau has gone, physics has followed. Now for the first time, readers will follow Yau’s penetrating thinking on where we’ve been, and where mathematics will take us next. A fascinating exploration of a world we are only just beginning to grasp, The Shape of Inner Space will change the way we consider the universe on both its grandest and smallest scales.
One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from it