Now a team led by Michael Kuhlen of the Institute for AdvancedStudy in Princeton, New Jersey, has devised an explanation that lends weight to this idea.
But a big attraction is the 57-year-old Yau himself: He's the leading Chinese mathematician and ranks among the top ten in the world, says Phillip Griffiths, a math professor and a former president of the Institute for AdvancedStudy in Princeton.
Hence teatime at the Institute for AdvancedStudy down the road from us in Princeton, credited for the birth of countless collaborations and papers since it began in the 1930s.