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

Name: Shape of Inner Space String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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ISBN: 9780465020232

ISBN-10: 0465020232

ISBN-13: 9780465020232

Edition: 2010

Authors: Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis

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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. InThe 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…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 9/7/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

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.



"Space/Time" (Poem)


Preface


Prelude: The Shapes of Things to Come



A Universe in the Margins



Geometry in the Natural Order



A New Kind of Hammer



Too Good to be True



Proving Calabi



The DNA of String Theory



Through the Looking Glass



Kinks in Spacetime



Back to the Real World



Beyond Calabi-Yau



The Universe Unravels



The Search for Extra Dimensions



Truth, Beauty, and Mathematics



The End of Geometry?


Epilogue Another Day, Another Donut


Postlude Entering the Sanctum


"A Flash in the Middle of a Long Night" (Poem)


Notes


Glossary


Index