The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

Harvard mathematician, Fields Prize winner Yau Xingtong gave a geometric justification for the "first string revolution", proposed fundamentally new ideas in understanding mass and curvature, and theoretically proved the stability of our Universe. In his autobiographical book, Yau talks about the incredible path that led him to the mathematical Olympus. Poor childhood in China and Hong Kong, graduate school at Berkeley in the midst of the Vietnam War protests, proof of the Calabi conjecture...