发表于2025-05-24
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.
The Shape of a Life 下载 mobi pdf epub txt 电子书 格式 2025
The Shape of a Life 下载 mobi epub pdf 电子书##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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评分 评分##丘老真是为八卦而生? 适合对几何感兴趣但是看不懂偏微分方程的读者 |走下神坛的陈省身华罗庚 |cameo:丁石孙 整部自传读得最上头的,大约是前半部关于丘成桐的成长历程。宝剑锋从磨砺出,梅花香自苦寒来。童年的丘成桐这一路走来,真是太不容易了。 丘成桐那超人的勤奋,也注定了他的数学天赋一定会绽放。据说年轻时的丘成桐就是一台不知疲倦的计算机器,每天能在数学上高强度地投入16小...
评分##”对我来说,数学赋予我的,是一本让我在世界各处随意走动的护照,同时也是探索这世界强而有力的工具。几十年来我研究学问,处世为人,屡败屡进,未曾气馁。我一声从未放弃追寻至真至美”。丘公应该就是太史公所谓的倜傥非常之人吧。科学和艺术,一个求真,一个求美,而真和美...
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评分 评分##”对我来说,数学赋予我的,是一本让我在世界各处随意走动的护照,同时也是探索这世界强而有力的工具。几十年来我研究学问,处世为人,屡败屡进,未曾气馁。我一声从未放弃追寻至真至美”。丘公应该就是太史公所谓的倜傥非常之人吧。科学和艺术,一个求真,一个求美,而真和美...
评分##看了 chapter 1,2,一半3
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