Shape of a Life One Mathematician''s Search for the Universe''s Hidden Geometry

A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape, the Calabi-Yau manifold, which may store the hidden dimensions of our universe

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Shing-Tung Yau is the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He has been awarded a Fields Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Crafoord Prize, the Veblen Prize, and other honors. Steve Nadis is a science writer and contributing editor to Astronomy and Discover magazines.

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• Autori: Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis, Nadis Steve, Shing-Tung Nadis Yau
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2019
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica; Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Scienze naturali
• EAN: 9780300235906
• ISBN: 978-0-300-23590-6
• Numero di pagine: 328
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 16.2 x 24.2 x 2.2 cm
• Categorie: Technikgeschichte, Quantenphysik, China, Memoir, Einstein, Quantenphysik (Quantenmechanik und Quantenfeldtheorie), Naturwissenschaften, allgemein, Harvard, Mathematische Physik, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Relativity, Astrophysics, Physik / Mathematik, Physik / Quantenphysik, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, Technik / Geschichte, Museen, Sehenswürdigkeiten, Mathematics, Autobiography, Hong Kong, geometry, Physics, String Theory, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Biography: science, technology & medicine, Mathematical physics, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Theoretical Physics, Geometer, Geometric Analysis, Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics, Calabi-Yau manifold, controversial, prize winning, Fields Medal, brian green, MacArthur Genius Grant, Manifold Destiny, famous scientist, humanistic math, famous mathemitician, science career, shape of life, advancement of idea, theory of general relativity, fields prize, gregory pearlman, elegant universe, calabi conjecture