Inner space: String theory & the universes' hidden dimensions - Yau Shin...
Ανέβηκε στις 25 Νοε 2010
Professor Yau Shing-Tung gives this
lecture entitled 'The shape of inner space: String theory & the
geometry of the universes' hidden dimensions' at The Australian National
University on 24 November 2010.
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. The discoverer of
these manifolds, Professor Yau Shing-Tung, will describe in general
terms how geometry enables the understanding of space time and trace its
historical development from the ancient Greeks through Einstein to
modern string theory, analysing on the way the contributions of many
great geometers and physicists.
Professor Yau has been a
Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University since 1987 and is the
current department chair. Born in Shantou, China, he was educated in
Hong Kong and from there moved to the US, where he obtained his PhD at
the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, under the great geometer
of the 20th century, Shing -Shen Chern. Professor Yau is one of the
most famous and influential figures in modern mathematics and has won
many major international prizes, including the prestigious Fields Medal
of the International Mathematical Union in 1982, the US National Medal
of Science in 1997 and earlier this year he was awarded the Wolf Prize.
This
lecture is based upon the recent book The shape of inner space: String
theory and the geometry of the universes' hidden dimensions by Professor
Yau and Steve Nadis.
lecture entitled 'The shape of inner space: String theory & the
geometry of the universes' hidden dimensions' at The Australian National
University on 24 November 2010.
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. The discoverer of
these manifolds, Professor Yau Shing-Tung, will describe in general
terms how geometry enables the understanding of space time and trace its
historical development from the ancient Greeks through Einstein to
modern string theory, analysing on the way the contributions of many
great geometers and physicists.
Professor Yau has been a
Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University since 1987 and is the
current department chair. Born in Shantou, China, he was educated in
Hong Kong and from there moved to the US, where he obtained his PhD at
the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, under the great geometer
of the 20th century, Shing -Shen Chern. Professor Yau is one of the
most famous and influential figures in modern mathematics and has won
many major international prizes, including the prestigious Fields Medal
of the International Mathematical Union in 1982, the US National Medal
of Science in 1997 and earlier this year he was awarded the Wolf Prize.
This
lecture is based upon the recent book The shape of inner space: String
theory and the geometry of the universes' hidden dimensions by Professor
Yau and Steve Nadis.
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