TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yau,Shing-Tung
AU  - Nadis,Steven J.
TI  - The shape of a life: one mathematician's search for the universe's hidden geometry 
SN  - 9780300235906
AV  - QA641 .Y38 2019
U1  - 516.36 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Yau, Shing-Tung,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - China
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Geometry, Differential
KW  - Geometric analysis
N1  - Includes index; Itinerant youth -- Life goes on -- Coming to America -- In the foothills of Mount Calabi -- The march to the summit -- The road to Jiaoling -- A special year -- Strings and waves in sunny San Diego -- Harvard bound -- Getting centered -- Beyond Poincare -- Between two cultures
N2  - "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"--
ER  -