Calabi-Yau Manifolds: A Bestiary For Physicists
"Hubsch has patiently collected and described a sometimes bewilderingly large number of relevant techniques from differential geometry and he thoroughly works out some quite illuminating examples, including many of physical interest ... His explanations are generally thorough and clear ... Hubsch's exposition is engaging and entertaining ... In the final section, Hubsch offers a tantalizing introduction to the many remarkable quantum properties of Calabi-Yau sigma models discovered in the last few years."  Edward Witten  Physics Today, 1993  "The book by Hubsch is the first and only available monography, bringing together the mathematical results and presenting them in a form useful for the physicists. It is written in a light vein and often manages to simplify the mathematics, making them more palatable to physics users. An essential tool for workers on strings, supergravity and related topics."  Yuval Ne'eman  Tel Aviv Univ., 1992  "This book is full of interesting and illustrative examples. Here one can see the techniques and theorems of algebraic geometry in action. It is also written with a great deal of style. Though apparently for physicists, I would highly recommend it for mathematicians and especially for students of algebraic geometry. It is not easy to write for both mathematicians and physicists -- I would say that this is an admirable example of such writing. Reading it, you will find that these manifolds are truly exciting creatures."  Michael Eastwood  University of Adelaide, 1992--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.