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Indeed they did, the OP story is told by Yau in The Shape of Inner Space, pp.169-70. Calculating the number of twisted cubics in the quintic hypersurface was a big early coup for mirror symmetry that attracted mathematicians' attention to string theory and revitalized enumerative geometry. In A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble ...
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