August 24, 2006

  • Beginnings
    (continued from
    August 22)

    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.

    Related material

    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