picture by Erik Jacobs for The New York Times.Here is the Emperor of Math with his Tatung rice cooker featured in the background. I never quite figure out how to correctly use this famous Taiwan brand rice cooker but it always manage to render good enough rice.
More reading from the the New York Times The Emperor of Math by Dennis Overbye. Picture by Erik Jacobs for The New York Times.
This piece from the New York Times is much more favourable to Dr Yau than the article in the New Yorker. I think he'd be pleased to appear in the New York Times this way.
ReplyDeleteI think he's suing the New Yorker for defamation. The New Yorker so far stands behind its article. I guess the truth is stranger than fiction.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia says the Times article is more "sympathetic."