Yau spent the next three years proving the existence of the class of manifolds Calabi had originally proposed. On Christmas Day in 1976, Yau met with Calabi and another mathematician, who confirmed ...

One of the first remarkable things that mathematician Shing-Tung Yau reveals in his memoir, The Shape of a Life, is that his name was not originally Yau. His family fled China to British-ruled ...

and Professor Albrecht Klemm (University of Bonn), leading experts on Calabi-Yau manifolds. The project received key funding through Professor Plefka's ERC Advanced Grant GraWFTy, the RTG 2575 ...