The Shape of Inner Space, International Edition: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - Brossura

Yau, Shing-Tung; Nadis, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0465023142 ISBN 13: 9780465023141

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2010

Riassunto

String theory says we live in a ten-dimensional universe, but that only four are accessible to our everyday senses. According to theorists, the missing six are curled up in bizarre structures known as Calabi-Yau manifolds. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist, argues that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is also fundamental to the very nature of our universe.

Time and again, where You has gone, physics has followed. Now for the first time, readers will follow Yau¿s penetrating thinking on where we¿ve been, and where mathematics will take us next. A fascinating exploration of a world we are only just beginning to grasp, The Shape of Inner Space will change the way we consider the universe on both its grandest and smallest scales.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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

Steve Nadis is a contributing editor to Astronomy magazine. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465023142
• ISBN 13: 9780465023141
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile