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The mirror principle, as developed by three of the four authors of the present paper [\textit{B. H. Lian; K. Liu; S.-T. Yau}, in: Surveys in differential geometry, Papers dedicated to Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch and Singer, Surv. Differ. Geom., Suppl. J. Differ. Geom. 7, 475--496 (2000; Zbl 1124.14303)], aims at computing certain intersection numbers on moduli spaces of stable maps to a target manifold \(X\). Their method relies on Atiyah-Bott localisation for the \({\mathbb C}^\times\)-equivariant cohomology on moduli of stable maps to \(X\times{\mathbb P}^ 1\). In the paper under review, this method is applied to carry out calculations for genus zero curves with target manifold \(X\) being a Grassmannian. The authors explain in detail how to calculate the equivariant Euler class of the normal bundle to certain \({\mathbb C}^\times\)-fixed-point components. The calculation of these classes is the most difficult step in finding the intersection numbers on the stable map moduli via the mirror principle. Two explicit examples, in which \(X={\mathbb P}^ 2\), are included in order to illustrate their method. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1012.00032].