The Shape of Inner Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shape of Inner Space write by Shing-Tung Yau. This book was released on 2010-09-07. The Shape of Inner Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The leading mind behind the mathematics of string theory discusses how geometry explains the universe we see. Illustrations.
The Shape of a Life
The Shape of a Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shape of a Life write by Shing-Tung Yau. This book was released on 2019-02-19. The Shape of a Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Center of the Cyclone
Center of the Cyclone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Center of the Cyclone write by John Lilly. This book was released on 2009-05-01. Center of the Cyclone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dreamtime & Inner Space
Dreamtime & Inner Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreamtime & Inner Space write by Holger Kalweit. This book was released on 1988. Dreamtime & Inner Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collection of reports from men and women who have taken mystical journeys in an altered state of consciousness.
The Poincare Conjecture
The Poincare Conjecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poincare Conjecture write by Donal O'Shea. This book was released on 2009-05-26. The Poincare Conjecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
