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- 9780465028375
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-10
0465028373
ISBN-13
9780465028375
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109034195
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shape of Inner Space : String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Physics / Quantum Theory, Space Science, Complex Analysis
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Mathematics, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
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AUTHORS' STATEMENT by SHING-TUNG YAU and STEVE NADIS There is a certain irony running through this book that one of the smallest things you can possibly imagine -- six-dimensional geometric spaces that may be more than a trillion times smaller than an electron -- could, nevertheless, be one of the defining features of our universe, exerting a profound influence that extends to every single point in the cosmos. This book is, in many ways, the story of those spaces, which physicists have dubbed "Calabi-Yau manifolds." It tells how one of us, Yau, managed to prove the existence, mathematically, of those spaces, despite the fact that he had originally set out to prove that such spaces could not possibly exist. It then goes on to explain how this mathematical proof, which had initially been ignored by physicists (partly because it was steeped in difficult, nonlinear arguments), nevertheless made its way into the center of string theory, which now stands as the leading theory of the universe and our best hope yet of unifying all the particles and forces observed -- and yet to be observed--in nature.
Grade From
Eighth Grade
Dewey Decimal
530.1
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Synopsis
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 Yau 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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