The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Shing-Tung Yau, Steve NadisAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-03-06Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465028375ISBN-10:465028373UPC:9780465028375Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Complex Analysis, Physics, Space ScienceBook Topic:Mathematical & ComputationalSize:9.29 x 6.30 x 1.08 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCW7DN6TAX
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465028375ISBN-10:465028373UPC:9780465028375Book Category:Mathematics, ScienceBook Subcategory:Complex Analysis, Physics, Space ScienceBook Topic:Mathematical & ComputationalSize:9.29 x 6.30 x 1.08 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCW7DN6TAX
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...
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