Knowledge, Technique, and Imagination – Kefeng Liu 知识技术和想象–刘克峰.pptVIP

Knowledge, Technique,and ImaginationKefeng LiuHangzhou, April 2004 Thank You All! Mirror Principle One hour before I left Boston to Stanford, Yau called me to talk about mirror symmetry. In 1990 Candelas el al made a beautiful conjecture about the numbers of rational curves in Calabi-Yau quintic. Mathematicians have tried for hundred of years to compute such numbers, they got the first 3 numbers. But the Candelas formulas gave the formulas of all such numbers, in terms of the solutions of a simple ordinary differential equation, the Picard-Fuchs equations. I did not follow the progress o