Describes recent works motivated by the discovery of the mirror symmetry phenomenon by physicists. The book opens with the geometry of Calabi-Yau manifolds and the ideas from quantum field theory that led to this discovery. The rest of the book is devoted to the mathematical aspects of mirror symmetry. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Without any doubt, the English version of this panoramic introduction to the phenomenon of mirror symmetry will find a much larger number of interesting readers than the Frech original could do, and that is what this beautiful text really deserves.
Zentralblatt f\"ur Mathematik
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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