Shing-Tung Yau, Steve Nadis

The Shape of a Life

One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780300235906
• ISBN-10: 0300235909
• Artikelnr.: 53481965

Autorenporträt

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.