Shing-Tung Yau

We are indebted to one of our friends here - 'JP' - who posted a comment to an earlier article in which he managed to include the following words in just a few brief sentences:

'Calabi-Yau Manifold.'

'MacGuffin'

'Mirror Symmetry'

...and 'Personal Individuality.'

It is with quite some sense of humour that I noted the same day I read his comments, another article in the Parisian Gentleman in which a bespoke boot-maker says 'such-and-such (a thing) is the cause of polemic argument.'

I am still here, at simple Euler characteristic forms...!
Turning things inside out - in motion - from within, is, I think,
broadly speaking, a way to understand 'Calabi-Yau.'

I am sure you can find people around the place who would be prepared to argue about any or all of the above all day long - and using polemics ('polemics' -  a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something; a controversial debate or dispute) to do it.

But we cannot allow ourselves to fall into that practice here. 

What a wonderful idea - both in its visualization based on practical mathematics, and in the structural characterization entailed - that the 'Calabi-Yau Manifold' is.

I am of course, interested to know if there is a way of talking about 'personal individuality' using manifold space... This would certainly be a new way of thinking about human psychology, but not necessarily illogical or invalid at all. Even if one were a 'depth psychology' practitioner, or a Jungian or the like.

Because after all, there has long been a tradition among classicists, that whatever is aesthetically pleasing, is likely to be 'true.' ...In some fundamental way.

Mr. 'Yau,' the second part of the eponymous geometrical idea we have noted here, wrote a book called 'Lectures on Harmonic Maps.'

This could be the famous mathematician Yau Sing-Tung,
or else it's Mr Chen from the back cover of my Tai Chi book

 
I might almost say, at this point: 'I rest my case.' Because there is nothing truer in business and finance and economics and everything, than that there are special relationships between all things that have harmonic equivalences.

And these 'special relationships' are the 'izme-azm' (the magical words, the 'gold') of making things happen that give you money. The opaque nature of humanity in its mass social forms, is the reason it seems difficult to move money from the broad public into your bitcoin vault - there is no obvious 'harmony of altruistic or even rational economic value-based social cause' obtaining in people in their daily routines;' they are, as I suggested, asleep or vegetative. 

They are vegetative because they are fed on fertilizer and thrive on it and 'move' in ways determined by the fertilizer until eventually, they also become fertilizer themselves.

Or they are asleep because their senses are muted to such an extent that even danger or wealth passes under their noses and they barely mutter a sound.