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 ...

The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see. Illustrations.

In The Gravity of Math, Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau consider how math can drive and sometimes even anticipate discoveries in physics.

Comprising volumes 28 and 29 of the ALM series, this outstanding collection presents all the survey papers of Shing-Tung Yau published to date (through 2013), each with Yau's own commentary.

Part 3 begins with an overview by R.E. Greene of some recent trends in Riemannia

These lectures, which continued throughout the 1984-1985 academic year, are published in this volume. This greatly anticipated volume is an essential reference tool for Differential Geometry.

The second of three parts comprising Volume 54, the proceedings of the Summer Research Institute on Differential Geometry, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, July 1990 (ISBN for the set is 0-8218-1493-1).

The story begins in 1825, when a precocious sixteen-year-old freshman, Benjamin Peirce, arrived at the College.

Part 1 begins with a problem list by S.T. Yau, successor to his 1980 list ( Sem