One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from it
Shing-Tung Yau Pořadí knih
Shing-Tung Yau je uznávaný matematik, který se proslavil svými průkopnickými pracemi v oblasti diferenciální geometrie a komplexní geometrie. Jeho výzkum přinesl zásadní pokroky v mnoha oblastech matematiky i fyziky, včetně teorie strun a obecné relativity. Yau je známý svou schopností řešit obtížné problémy a propojovat zdánlivě nesouvisející matematické koncepty. Jeho přínos k matematice je hluboký a jeho práce nadále inspiruje nové generace vědců.
- 2024
- 2010
The Shape of Inner Space
String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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. In The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau, the man who mathematically proved that these manifolds exist, argues that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is also fundamental to the very nature of our universe.Time and again, where Yau has gone, physics has followed. Now for the first time, readers will follow Yau’s penetrating thinking on where we’ve been, and where mathematics will take us next. A fascinating exploration of a world we are only just beginning to grasp, The Shape of Inner Space will change the way we consider the universe on both its grandest and smallest scales.
