The shape of inner space : string theory and the geometry of the universe's hidden dimensions /

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. Here, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yau, Shing-Tung, 1949-
Otros Autores: Nadis, Steven J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Basic Books, ©2010.
Temas:
Hyperspace.
String models.
Fourth dimension.
Hyperespace.
Quatrième dimension.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Fourth dimension
Hyperspace
String models
Kosmologie.
Dimensietheorie.
Geometrische aspecten.
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Space/time" (poem)
  • 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?
  • Another day, another donut
  • Entering the sanctum
  • "A flash in the middle of a long night" (poem).

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