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The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - Rilegato

Yau, Shing-Tung; Nadis, Steve

 
9780465020232: The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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ISBN 10: 0465020232 ISBN 13: 9780465020232
Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2010

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Argues that geometry is fundamental to string theory--which posits that we live in a 10-dimensional existence--as well as the very nature of the universe, and explains where mathematics will take string theory next.

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Shing-Tung Yau has won many awards, including the Fields Medal. He is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Steve Nadis is a Contributing Editor to Astronomy Magazine. He has published articles in Nature, Science, Scientific American, New Scientist, Sky&Telescope, The Atlantic Monthly, and other journals. He has written or contributed to more than two dozen books. A former staff researcher for the Union of Concerned Scientists, Nadis has also been a research fellow at MIT and a consultant to the World Resources Institute, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and WGBH/NOVA. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Editore
Basic Books
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0465020232
ISBN 13 
9780465020232
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Disegnatore
Gu Xianfeng David, Yin Xiaotian Tim
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
377
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