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

Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis

ISBN 10: 0465020232 / ISBN 13: 9780465020232

Editore: Basic Books (AZ) September 2010, 2010

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• Titolo: Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
• Editore: Basic Books (AZ) September 2010
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0465020232
• ISBN 13: 9780465020232
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Science & Mathematics

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.