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Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions 内层空间之形：丘成桐自传 9780465023141

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作者：Shing-Tung Yau (Author), SteveNadi (Author) 著

出版社：Basic Books

出版时间：2010-10-29

I S B N：9780465023141

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【敬告读者】：2010年12月19日，丘成桐先生将在国家图书馆和清华大学举行公益报告会。凡在当当购买本书的读者，可持书到报告会现场获得作者亲笔签名。

国图公益报告时间：2010年12月19日上午10:00开始
主题：数学与人文
报告人：丘成桐，数学与人文丛书主编
与会嘉宾：杨乐，中国科学院院士，数学与人文丛书主编；季理真，美国密西根大学教授，数学与人文丛书主编。
活动安排：• 与读者互动（报告的后30分钟）• 签名售书（会后15分钟）：
THE SHAPE OF INNER SPACE: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions(中文标准译名:《大宇之形--内空间之美》)

清华大学报告会时间：2010年12月19日 17:30-18:20
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地点：清华大学六教A段415教室

丘成桐获得三项世界顶级数学奖：菲尔兹奖、沃尔夫奖、克莱福特奖，历史上仅有两位数学家荣获过这这三大奖（另一位是比利时数学家德利涅）。丘成桐也是继自己的导师陈省身之后，第二位获得沃尔夫数学奖的华人。本书是丘成桐的一本准自传，重点讲述他证明Calabi猜想的过程，以及Calabi-Yau流形在超弦理论中的应用（该书的副标题“String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions”也说明了这个重点所在）。本书是与一位名叫Steve Nadis的科学杂志主编合作撰写的，后者负责收集（包括采访）书中提到的其他科学家的资料。

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******AUTHORS' STATEMENT by SHING-TUNG YAU and STEVE NADIS******
There is a certain irony running through this book that one of the smallest things you can possibly imagine--six-dimensional geometric spaces that may be more than a trillion times smaller than an electron--could, nevertheless, be one of the defining features of our universe, exerting a profound influence that extends to every single point in the cosmos. This book is, in many ways, the story of those spaces, which physicists have dubbed "Calabi-Yau manifolds." It tells how one of us, Yau, managed to prove the existence, mathematically, of those spaces, despite the fact that he had originally set out to prove that such spaces could not possibly exist. It then goes on to explain how this mathematical proof, which had initially been ignored by physicists (partly because it was steeped in difficult, nonlinear arguments), nevertheless made its way into the center of string theory, which now stands as the leading theory of the universe and our best hope yet of unifying all the particles and forces observed--and yet to be observed--in nature.

Of course, none of this could have been foretold more than a half century ago when a man named Eugenio Calabi--the first half of the Calabi-Yau duo--proposed that there could be multidimensional spaces with properties so special that many mathematicians, including one of this book's authors, considered them "too good to be true." Calabi had not been thinking about physics at the time, in the early 1950s, when he advanced the famous conjecture named after him. Following the proof of the Calabi conjecture, we have learned many new and wonderful things in both physics and mathematics--all of which suggest that Calabi-Yau spaces are not only too good to be true, as the skeptics used to say, but that they may be even better.

******BLURBS******

Brian Greene, Professor of Mathematics & Physics, Columbia University; author of The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Elegant Universe
“The Shape of Inner Space provides a vibrant tour through the strange and wondrous possibility that the three spatial dimensions we see may not be the only ones that exist. Told by one of the masters of the subject, the book gives an in-depth account of one of the most exciting and controversial developments in modern theoretical physics.”

Joe Polchinski, Professor of Physics, University of California - Santa Barbara; author of String Theory, Vols. 1 & 2
“Einstein’s vision of physical laws emerging from the shape of space has been expanded by the higher dimensions of string theory. This vision has transformed not only modern physics, but also modern mathematics. Shing-Tung Yau has been at the center of these developments. In this ambitious book, written with experienced science writer Steve Nadis, Yau tells of his own mathematical experiences, and of the parallel efforts in string theory and in mathematics to understand the nature of space.”

Simon Donaldson, Royal Society Research Professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science, ImperialCollegeLondon
“The Shape of Inner Space has a distinctive style: in part autobiography, in part an account of developments in geometric analysis and string theory over the past 40 years, and comments on future directions. It gives a unique insight into the thoughts of one of the most important and influential mathematicians of our times.”

Edward Witten, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
“Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis take the reader on a fascinating tour of many contemporary topics in geometry and physics. Readers will find many challenging ideas to explore in this book, and even specialists will enjoy Yau’s reminiscences about his education and work.”

Steven Strogatz, New York Times Opinionator contributor and professor of mathematics, Cornell University
“A fascinating first-hand account of how the math underlying string theory was discovered. Fields medalist Yau and ace science writer Nadis have teamed up to show the rest of us the deep geometry that just might lie at the heart of the universe. It’ll twist you into knots of pleasure!”

John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics, University of Cambridge
"This remarkable book by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis gives the layman a remarkable glimpse into the mysterious inner world of one of the most beautiful and important parts of mathematics."

Andrew Strominger, Professor of Physics, Harvard University
“This book tells an inspiring story about how progress in science is made by breaking traditional boundaries in disciplines. It's really the only book of its kind—and, of course, written by someone who not only witnessed but also inspired and produced many of the major developments in this field over an exhilarating period of four decades.”

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你曾否好奇过在微小尺度之下我们生活的这个空间是怎么样的？它并不像我们过去认为的一样平坦和简单！肉眼中的一个普通点是六维的Calabi-Yau流形。
快来与丘成桐教授分享特殊的一个小时去探索“大宇之形 -- 内空间之美”吧！丘成桐教授刚刚完成了以此命名的一部书。你会听到他关于这个主题的演讲。演讲过后他会回答听众的问题并且为新书签名。这是与一位世界杰出的数学家交流的独特机会。
菲尔兹奖得主西蒙•唐纳森说：“《内层空间之形》有着独特的风格：部分是自传，而部分则是对四十年来几何分析和弦论发展的论述和关于未来方向的评论。此书独特地洞察了一位这个时代最重要和最有影响力的数学家的思想。”Have you ever wondered how the space we live in looks like at a miniature scale? It is not as flat or simple as we thought in the past! An ordinary point to the naked eye is a 6-dimensional Calabi-Yau manifold.

Come and join a special hour with Professor Shing-Tung Yau to explore “The Shape of Inner Space”! Prof S. T. Yau recently wrote a book with this title. You will hear him speak on this topic. He will be answering questions and signing books after the presentation. This is a unique opportunity to interact with one of the leading mathematicians of the world.

Fields Medalist Simon Donaldson said, "The Shape of Inner Space has a distinctive style: in part autobiography, in part an account of developments in geometric analysis and string theory over the past 40 years, and comments on future directions. It gives a unique insight into the thoughts of one of the most important and influential mathematicians of our times."

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The Shape of Inner Space

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.

作者简介

丘成桐（Shing-Tung Yau，1949－）著名数学家，数学界最高荣誉菲尔兹奖得主之一。丘成桐生于广东汕头，长于香港。中学时就读香港培正中学，1966年入读香港中文大学崇基学院数学系。他在大学三年级时，前往美国加州大学伯克利分校深造，师从陈省身；于1971年获得博士学位后，在高等数学研究所作了一年博士后研究，然后在纽约州立大学石溪分校当了两年助理教授。1974年，成为斯坦福大学副教授。1979年以教授身份回到高等数学研究所。1984年至1987年担任圣地牙哥加利福尼亚大学教授。1987年，任教于哈佛大学，现任该校William Casper Graustein讲席教授，浙江大学高等数学研究所所长。 2010年丘成桐将获得有数学家终身成就奖之称的沃尔夫数学奖。沃尔夫奖表彰他在几何分析领域的贡献，在几何和物理的多个领域都产生的“深刻而引人注目的影响”。至此，丘成桐已经囊括数学界两大最高奖项。早在1982年，他就获得40岁以下数学家最高奖——国际数学联盟菲尔兹奖，而沃尔夫数学奖则被视为终身成就的象征。