A personal approach to the peak of geometry

Yau did not aim for a book for everyone, rather this is by far the deepest math popular book, if not the best, I have ever read. Given his strength and breadth along the forty-year career in differential geometry, geometric analysis, and mirror symmetry, merely his reminiscence is enough for an excellent survey to these fields, which he did.

If this book appeared earlier and I happened to see it six years ago, I probably would step into the field. Now I could only wish there is some algebraic geometer who would write a parallel book. But, who is eligible, that is the question. After Mumford, it is hard to find such a person.