A classic of mathematical history in this week’s New Yorker begins,
“On the evening of June 20th, several hundred physicists, including a Nobel laureate, assembled in an auditorium at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing for a lecture by the Chinese mathematician Shing-Tung Yau.”
The story, by Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber, is now online.
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Log24 on June 20th
(morning in New York,
evening in Beijing)–
Beijing String begins,
“Oh, do not ask, ‘What is it?‘
Let us go and make our visit.”
— T. S. Eliot