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SUMMARY:The Shape of Inner Space - Shing-Tun Yau (Harvard)
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CONTACT:Dr Jock McOrist
DESCRIPTION:I’d like to talk about how mathematics and physics can come 
 together to the benefit of both fields\, particularly in the case of Calab
 i-Yau spaces and string theory. This\, not coincidentally\, is the subject
  of a new book\, THE SHAPE OF INNER SPACE\, which I have written with Stev
 e Nadis\, a science writer. This book tells the story of those spaces. It 
 also tells some of my own story and a bit of the history of geometry as we
 ll. In that spirit\, I’m going to back up and talk about my personal int
 roduction to geometry and the evolution of the ideas that are discussed in
  this book. I wanted to write this book to give people a sense of how math
 ematicians think and approach the world. I also want people to realize tha
 t mathematics does not have to be a wholly abstract discipline\, disconnec
 ted from everyday phenomena\, but is instead crucial to our understanding 
 of the physical world.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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