- Cosmologia, Popular works, Kosmologie, Cosmology
A magnificent challenge to conventional ideas' Financial Times'I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It manages to be both challenging and entertaining: it is highly recommended' the Independent'(Greene) send(s) the reader's imagination hurtling through the universe on an astonishing ride.
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- Author
- Brian Greene
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Einaudi, RH Audio, Books On Tape
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, English, srp
- ISBN
- 9780375727207
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“Space and time capture the imagination like no other scientific subject.”
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963) is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Greene co-discovered mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds. He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, and the conifold transition, a more severe transformation of space, showing that topology can smoothly change in string theory. His books *The Elegant Universe* (1999, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), *The Fabric of the Cosmos* (2004), *Th
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