Calabi-Yau manifolds, 6D shapes that are crucial to string theory, were named after the late Eugenio Calabi (right), who proposed the shapes in the 1950s, and Shing-Tung Yau, who in the 1970s set out to prove Calabi wrong but ended up doing the opposite....
Lire la suiteThe mathematician Eugenio Calabi died on September 25 at 100 years old. In Calabi’s obituary, Steve Nadis details how the geometer’s work shaped his field and attracted the imagination of string theorists. https://t.co/fd2MRCF5nZ — Quanta Magazine (@QuantaMagazine)...
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