Recent advances in noncommutative algebra and Calabi–Yau theories have established a fertile interdisciplinary domain that bridges the gap between abstract algebraic formulations and geometric ...

Heterotic string models arise by compactifying ten-dimensional string theories that combine supersymmetric strings with large gauge groups on six-dimensional Calabi–Yau manifolds. The choice of Calabi ...

Eugenio Calabi was known to his colleagues as an inventive mathematician — “transformatively original,” as his former student Xiuxiong Chen put it. In 1953, Calabi began to contemplate a class of ...

British physicist Stephen Hawking may claim that extra dimensions provide the key to understanding the "grand design" of the universe, but it's Chinese-American mathematician Shing-Tung Yau who ...

Calabi–Yau spaces have become the poster child for string theory. These baroquely curved shapes adorn book jackets and conference notices galore, and you can even buy a plum-size model of one from the ...

String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch of space, the theory says, and you won’t see a menagerie of ...