The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a ...

F-Theory offers a geometric realisation of strongly coupled string theory that extends traditional perturbative methods. By utilising the mathematics of elliptically fibre‐ed Calabi–Yau manifolds, ...

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 ...

Mathematics Department Chair Shing-Tung Yau hopes to make analytic geometry and string theory accessible to a wider audience with his new book, “The Shape of Inner Space,” which he co-wrote with ...

An illustration of two black holes about to merge and emitting copious gravitational waves. And as the numbers of gravitational-wave observations have increased, physicists’ careful modeling is ...

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 ...