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The 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--that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insigh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1 Itinerant Youth; 2 Life Goes On; 3 Coming to America; 4 In the Foothills of Mount Calabi; 5 The March to the Summit; 6 The Road to Jiaoling; 7 A Special Year; 8 Strings and Waves in Sunny San Diego; 9 Harvard Bound; 10 Getting Centered; 11 Beyond Poincaré; 12 Between Two Cultures; Epilogue; Index.