Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry by Shing-Tung Yau | Goodreads
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A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational e…
1 review1 follower July 26, 2021 Wonderful book. I heard about it in Prasad Kothari's lecture on Ramanujan Machine (Where he gave example about AI for Math as CNNs for analyzing Calabi Yau further - volume minimum of Sasaki-Einstein base manifolds and explained importance of Dr Yau's math work). Yau is such a great mathematician. Loved the biography. 756 reviews602 followers July 12, 2026 ‘“ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE,” Gertrude Stein famously stated in a 1913 poem. But can the same be said about a sphere? If you take, for instance, a slightly deflated soccer ball and push it at one end,…
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