Shing-Tung Yau es un distinguido matemático reconocido por su innovador trabajo en geometría diferencial y compleja. Su investigación ha generado avances fundamentales en numerosos campos tanto de las matemáticas como de la física, incluyendo la teoría de cuerdas y la relatividad general. Yau es célebre por su capacidad para abordar problemas profundos y conectar conceptos matemáticos aparentemente dispares. Sus contribuciones a las matemáticas son significativas y continúan inspirando a nuevas generaciones de académicos.
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
String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
According to string theory, we live in a ten-dimensional universe; but only four are accessible to our everyday senses. The remaining 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, shows that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is also fundamental to the very nature of our universe.