Steve Nadis es un distinguido escritor de ciencia cuya prolífica carrera lo ha visto contribuir a revistas de prestigio como Nature, Science y Scientific American. Su trabajo profundiza en temas científicos complejos, haciéndolos accesibles a una amplia audiencia. Nadis ha escrito o coescrito numerosos libros, consolidando su reputación como una voz clave en la comunicación científica. Su experiencia como exinvestigador y consultor aporta una profunda comprensión y credibilidad a sus exploraciones del mundo natural.
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
String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
377 páginas
14 horas de lectura
According to string theory, we live in a ten-dimensional universe; but only four are accessible to our everyday senses. The remaining 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, shows that not only is geometry fundamental to string theory, it is also fundamental to the very nature of our universe.