Calabi-Yau manifold

English Etymology en :af Calabi yue:丘 manifold The name was coined by Candelas et al. (1985), en = Eugenio Calabi Italian-born American mathematician 1 (1954, 1957) who first conjectured that such surfaces might exist, and en Chinese American mathematician and educator  Shing-Tung Yau Chinese American mathematician educator = (1978), who proved the Calabi conjecture. Noun en algebraic geometry A kind of manifold having properties, such as Ricci flatness, that yield applications in theoretical physics. en Calabi-Yau space en eponyms