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Moduli, Motives, Mirrors

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This talk is dedicated to various aspects of Mirror Symmetry. It summarizes some of the mathematical developments that took place since M. Kontsevich’s report at the Zürich ICM and provides an extensive, although not exhaustive bibliography.

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Manin, Y.I. (2001). Moduli, Motives, Mirrors. In: Casacuberta, C., Miró-Roig, R.M., Verdera, J., Xambó-Descamps, S. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 201. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8268-2_4

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