The Shape Of Inner Space

Author : Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher : Il Saggiatore
ISBN 13 : 0465020232
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Inner Space written by Shing-Tung Yau and published by Il Saggiatore. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see. Illustrations.

Author : Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465022669
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Inner Space written by Shing-Tung Yau and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Shing-Tung Yau
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245521
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of a Life written by Shing-Tung Yau and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong effort to uncover the geometric shape—the Calabi-Yau manifold—that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe. Harvard geometer Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on his improbable journey to becoming one of the world’s most distinguished mathematicians. Beginning with an impoverished childhood in China and Hong Kong, Yau takes readers through his doctoral studies at Berkeley during the height of the Vietnam War protests, his Fields Medal–winning proof of the Calabi conjecture, his return to China, and his pioneering work in geometric analysis. This new branch of geometry, which Yau built up with his friends and colleagues, has paved the way for solutions to several important and previously intransigent problems. With complicated ideas explained for a broad audience, this book offers not only insights into the life of an eminent mathematician, but also an accessible way to understand advanced and highly abstract concepts in mathematics and theoretical physics. “The remarkable story of one of the world’s most accomplished mathematicians . . . Yau’s personal journey—from escaping China as a youngster, leading a gang outside Hong Kong, becoming captivated by mathematics, to making breakthroughs that thrust him on the world stage—inspires us all with humankind’s irrepressible spirit of discovery.” —Brian Greene, New York Times–bestselling author of The Elegant Universe “An unexpectedly intimate look into a highly accomplished man, his colleagues and friends, the development of a new field of geometric analysis, and a glimpse into a truly uncommon mind.” —The Boston Globe “Engaging, eminently readable. . . . For those with a taste for elegant and largely jargon-free explanations of mathematics, The Shape of a Life promises hours of rewarding reading.” —American Scientist

Author : Donal O'Shea
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718949
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poincare Conjecture written by Donal O'Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Poincaré was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which studies properties of geometric configurations that are unchanged by stretching or twisting. The Poincaré conjecture lies at the heart of modern geometry and topology, and even pertains to the possible shape of the universe. The conjecture states that there is only one shape possible for a finite universe in which every loop can be contracted to a single point. Poincaré's conjecture is one of the seven "millennium problems" that bring a one-million-dollar award for a solution. Grigory Perelman, a Russian mathematician, has offered a proof that is likely to win the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel prize, in August 2006. He also will almost certainly share a Clay Institute millennium award. In telling the vibrant story of The Poincaré Conjecture, Donal O'Shea makes accessible to general readers for the first time the meaning of the conjecture, and brings alive the field of mathematics and the achievements of generations of mathematicians whose work have led to Perelman's proof of this famous conjecture.

Author : John Lilly
Publisher : Ronin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781579511036
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Center of the Cyclone written by John Lilly and published by Ronin Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-out-of-print counterculture classic, Dr. John C. Lilly takes readers behind the scenes into the inner life of a scientist exploring inner space, or “far-out spaces,” as Lilly called them. The book explains how he derived his theory of the operations of the human mind and brain from his personal experiences and experiments in solitude, isolation, and confinement; LSD; and other methods of mystical experience. It also includes glimpses into Lilly's friendship with such 1960s' notables as Oscar Ichazo, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Albert Hofmann, Fritz Perls, and Claudio Narajo. Written for the non-specialist, Center of the Cyclone shows an important, modern thinker at his most personal and profound.

Author : Hildon, Karl J. H
Publisher : Milton, Ont. : Transactor Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780969208600
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Commodore Inner Space Anthology written by Hildon, Karl J. H and published by Milton, Ont. : Transactor Pub.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victor J. Stenger
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615922288
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Timeless Reality written by Victor J. Stenger and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of physics and astronomy studies a theory that time is reversible, and explains how physicists have generally been reluctant to accept the reversibility of time because of the implied causal paradoxes. Illustrations.

Author : Holger Kalweit
Publisher : Shambhala
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreamtime & Inner Space written by Holger Kalweit and published by Shambhala. This book was released on 1988 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of reports from men and women who have taken mystical journeys in an altered state of consciousness.

Author : Sarah Tomlinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556111
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Designs for Inner Peace written by Sarah Tomlinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to creating planetary yantras to access their healing and centering benefits • Provides easy-to-follow instructions to create the yantras • Serves as an introduction to active meditation, which focuses the mind while the body is engaged in a meditative activity The tantric art of drawing or painting the nine designs known as yantras is an ancient practice of active meditation that releases positive healing and centering effects. Each of the nine designs corresponds to one of the nine qualities of body and mind essential to well-being: radiance, nourishment, passion, intellect, expansion, bliss, organization, uniqueness, and spirituality. From the basic elements of the square, the circle, and the triangle, dynamic visual meditations unfold as the practitioner works clockwise from the outer elements inward toward the central point of stillness, or bindu, the source of happiness within. An accompanying mantra is recited while preparing each yantra to fully engage the senses in the meditative process. Creating the design that “speaks” most to the practitioner enables its unique healing quality to be transmitted. For example, working on the yantra named “Radiance” cultivates optimism and the self-confidence to succeed in one’s endeavors, while “radiating,” or imparting, one’s inner light to others. This workbook provides an important resource for active meditation, a practice revered for its effectiveness in revealing the spiritual underpinnings of everyday life. The active participation of the body in meditation while creating the nine planetary yantras raises to the level of spiritual ritual the practitioner’s intention toward wakefulness and gives access to profound states of healing integration.

Author : Jeffrey R. Weeks
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203912667
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Space written by Jeffrey R. Weeks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining the standard of excellence set by the previous edition, this textbook covers the basic geometry of two- and three-dimensional spaces Written by a master expositor, leading researcher in the field, and MacArthur Fellow, it includes experiments to determine the true shape of the universe and contains illustrated examples and engaging exercises that teach mind-expanding ideas in an intuitive and informal way. Bridging the gap from geometry to the latest work in observational cosmology, the book illustrates the connection between geometry and the behavior of the physical universe and explains how radiation remaining from the big bang may reveal the actual shape of the universe.