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.
關於作者：
Shing-Tung Yau has been a professor of mathematics at Harvard
since 1987 and is the current department Chair.Yau has won many
awards over the course of his career, including the Fields Medal,
the National Medal of Science, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Veblen
Prize, and the California Scientist of the Year. A highly
sought-after lecturer, Yau is frequently interviewed for radio, TV,
and print media stories.
目錄：
"SpaceeTime" Poem vii
Preface ix
Prelude: The Shapes of Things to Come xvii
1 A UNIVERSE IN THE MARGINS
2 GEOMETRY IN THE NATURAL ORDER
3 A NEW KIND OF HAMMER
4 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
5 PROVING CALABI
6 THE DNA OF STRING THEORY
7 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
8 KINKS IN SPACETIME
9 BACK TO THE REAL WORLD
10 BEYOND CALABI-YAU
11 THE UNIVERSE UNRAVELS
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