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Praise for YAU
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STEVE NADIS STRING THEORY
THE SHAPE OF tring theory—meant to reconcile the
INNER SPACE patibility of our two most essful
GEOMETRY of the UNIVERSE’S theories of physics, general relativity and
“The Shape of Inner Space provides a vibrant tour through the strange and wondrous possibility SPACE INNER
THE quantum mechanics—holds that the particles
that the three spatial dimensions we see may not be the only ones that exist. Told by one of the Sand forces of nature are the result of the vibrations of tiny
masters of the subject, the book gives an in-depth account of one of the most exciting HIDDEN DIMENSIONS
“strings,” and that we live in a universe of ten dimensions,
and controversial developments in modern theoretical physics.”—BRIAN GREENE, Professor of
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four of which we can experience, and six that are curled up
Mathematics & Physics, Columbia University, SHAPE
in elaborate, twisted shapes called Calabi-Yau manifolds.
Shing-Tung Yau author of The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Elegant Universe
has been a professor of mathematics at Harvard since These spaces are so minuscule we’ll probably never see
1987 and is the current department chair. Yau is the winner “Einstein’s vision of physical laws emerging from the shape of space has been expanded by the higher them directly; nevertheless, the geometry of this secret
dimensions of string theory. This vision has transformed not only modern physics, but also modern
of the Fields Medal, the National Medal of Science, the realm may hold the key to the most important physical
mathematics. Shing-Tung Yau has been at the center of these developments. In this ambitious book,
Crafoord Prize, the Veblen Prize, the Wolf Prize, and a phenomena we know about.
written with experienced science writer Steve Nadis, Yau tells of his own mathematical experiences,