Rational Curves on Calabi-Yau Threefolds

Abstract

The point is to compare the mathematical meaning of the ``number of rational curves on a Calabi-Yau threefold'' to the meaning ascribed to the same notion by string theorists.

10 pages, AMSLaTeX v1.0 or 1.1. This is a survey talk given at the May 1991 Workshop on Mirror Symmetry at MSRI