Fabric of the Cosmos

Name: Fabric of the Cosmos
Rating: 4.1 (22 reviews)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780713996777

by Unknown Author

4.1

(22 ratings)

588 pages2004Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780713996777

Science Science Fiction

About this book

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. As a popularizer of exquisitely abstract science, he is both a skilled and kindly explicator' the New York Times'Greene is as elegant as ever, cutting through the fog of complexity with insight and clarity; space and time become putty in his hands' Los Angeles Times Book Review

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Published: 2004
Pages: 588
ISBN: 9780713996777
Language: en

About Unknown Author

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), *The Hidden Reality* (2011), and *Until the End of Time* (2020) were all top 10 *New York Times* bestsellers.