Life Contour: Mathematician in the search for hidden geometry of the universe

Harvard mathematician, laureate of the Fields Prize Yau Shintun, gave the geometric justification of the “first string revolution”, proposed fundamentally new ideas in understanding the mass and curvature and theoretically proved the stability of our Universe. In his autobiographical book, Yau talks about an incredible path that led him to a mathematical Olympus. Poor childhood in China and Hong Kong, studying in graduate school in Berkeley in the midst of protests related to the Vietnamese War, evidence of the Kalabi hypothesis, for which he was awarded the Fields medal, work on two continents in China and America, the development of a new area of ​​mathematics - geometric analysis . Yau created this new area with friends and colleagues, paved the way to solve several important and very difficult tasks that have stood dozens and even hundreds of years before science. What are their essence - there is a chance to figure out by reading the book. After all, the purpose of the authors is not only to tell about the life of gifted mathematics and the academic environment, but also to bring the reader closer to understanding the current concepts and tasks of mathematics and theoretical physics