The Shape of a Life
One Mathematician’s Search for the Universe’s Hidden Geometry
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A Fields medalist recounts his lifelong transnational effort to uncover the geometric shape - the Calabi-Yau manifold - that may store the hidden dimensions of our universe.
Harvard geometer and Fields medalist 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 listeners 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 listeners 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.
©2019 Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest triumphs in the history of physics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent biography of great physicist
- De Eileen en 05-09-13
De: Graham Farmelo
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
- Selected Letters of Richard Feynman
- De: Richard P. Feynman
- Narrado por: Richard Poe, Johanna Parker
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Few scientists have enthralled more people than Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Six Easy Pieces and Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Beloved for his engaging character and zest for life, he is an American icon. In this selection of letters, Feynman's towering genius and singular personality shine like dazzling stars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely delightful
- De csk en 07-07-05
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- De: Ian Stewart
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beware
- De Anton Kurtz en 12-08-18
De: Ian Stewart
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A Mind at Play
- How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
- De: Rob Goodman, Jimmy Soni
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Claude Shannon was a tinkerer, a playful wunderkind, a groundbreaking polymath, and a digital pioneer whose insights made the Information Age possible. He constructed fire-breathing trumpets and customized unicycles, outfoxed Vegas casinos, and built juggling robots, but he also wrote the seminal text of the Digital Revolution. That work allowed scientists to measure and manipulate information as objectively as any physical object. His work gave mathematicians and engineers the tools to bring that world to pass.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I wanted more information about Information Theory
- De Bonny en 05-08-18
De: Rob Goodman, y otros
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How the Laser Happened
- Adventures of a Scientist
- De: Charles H. Townes
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in 20th-century physics. This lively memoir, packed with firsthand accounts and historical anecdotes, is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of science and an inspiring example for students considering scientific careers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for aspiring physicists
- De James S. en 10-06-18
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Frank Ramsey
- A Sheer Excess of Powers
- De: Cheryl Misak
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 19 h y 55 m
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When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein treated as an equal. Had he lived he might have been recognized as the most brilliant thinker of the century. This amiable shambling bear of a man was an ardent socialist, a believer in free love, and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set. For the first time Cheryl Misak tells the full story of his extraordinary life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great biography, not appropriate as an audiobook
- De Scott en 06-18-24
De: Cheryl Misak
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Hood
- Trailblazer of the Genomics Age
- De: Luke Timmerman, David Baltimore
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn't see before and do things they hadn't dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine. Hood, a son of the American West, was an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Revealing Biography
- De Jean en 07-27-17
De: Luke Timmerman, y otros
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Einstein's War
- How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I
- De: Matthew Stanley
- Narrado por: Matthew Stanley
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Few recognize how the Great War, the industrialized slaughter that bled Europe from 1914 to 1918, shaped Einstein’s life and work. While Einstein never held a rifle, he formulated general relativity blockaded in Berlin, literally starving. He lost 50 pounds in three months, unable to communicate with his most important colleagues. Some of those colleagues fought against rabid nationalism; others were busy inventing chemical warfare - scientists trapped in the power plays of empire. Meanwhile, Einstein struggled to craft relativity and persuade the world that it was correct.
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3 out of 5 stars
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When will I learn?
- De Paul en 01-01-20
De: Matthew Stanley
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- De: Ray Monk
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 35 h y 17 m
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set himself on a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center, Ray Monk, author of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, goes deeper than any previous biographer in the quest to solve the enigma of Oppenheimer’s motivations and his complex personality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A comprehensive biography
- De Jean en 10-17-14
De: Ray Monk
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
- How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
- De: Nancy Forbes, Basil Mahon
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Two of the boldest and most creative scientists of all time were Michael Faraday (1791-1867) and James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879). This is the story of how these two men - separated in age by 40 years - discovered the existence of the electromagnetic field and devised a radically new theory which overturned the strictly mechanical view of the world that had prevailed since Newton's time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing narration of an incredibly well told story
- De Paul de Jong en 03-01-21
De: Nancy Forbes, y otros
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Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work
- De: Kitty Ferguson
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most remarkable figures of our time, a Cambridge genius who has earned international celebrity as a brilliant theoretical physicist and become an inspiration and revelation to those who have witnessed his courageous triumph over disability. This is Hawking's life story by Kitty Ferguson, who has had special help from Hawking himself and his close associates and who has a gift for translating the language of theoretical physics for non-scientists.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not What it Appears
- De Heizenberg en 04-04-12
De: Kitty Ferguson
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Gods of the Upper Air
- How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- De: Charles King
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced". What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book, Much Needed despite poor performance
- De J. Kahn en 08-21-19
De: Charles King
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The Hidden Habits of Genius
- Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit - Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness
- De: Craig Wright
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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What is genius? The word evokes iconic figures like Einstein, Beethoven, Picasso, and Steve Jobs, whose cultural contributions have irreversibly shaped society. Yet Beethoven could not multiply. Picasso couldn’t pass a fourth grade math test. And Jobs left high school with a 2.65 GPA. The Hidden Habits of Genius explores the meaning of this contested term, and the unexpected motivations of those we have dubbed "genius" throughout history, from Charles Darwin and Marie Curie to Leonardo Da Vinci and Andy Warhol to Toni Morrison and Elon Musk.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Click-bait title, minimal substance inside
- De James S. en 11-27-20
De: Craig Wright
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The Idea Factory
- Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
- De: Jon Gertner
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 17 h y 28 m
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In The Idea Factory, New York Times Magazine writer Jon Gertner reveals how Bell Labs served as an incubator for scientific innovation from the 1920s through the1980s. In its heyday, Bell Labs boasted nearly 15,000 employees, 1200 of whom held PhDs and 13 of whom won Nobel Prizes. Thriving in a work environment that embraced new ideas, Bell Labs scientists introduced concepts that still propel many of today’s most exciting technologies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story -- horrible pauses
- De Rodney en 01-29-13
De: Jon Gertner
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The Element
- How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
- De: Ken Robinson Ph.D.
- Narrado por: Ken Robinson Ph. D., Lou Aronica
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the 21st century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Great
- De Samantha en 04-02-12
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How the Hippies Saved Physics
- Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
- De: David Kaiser
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Some dabbled with LSD while conducting experiments. They studied quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading, discussing the latest developments while lounging in hot tubs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, I understand entanglement
- De Gary en 05-27-12
De: David Kaiser
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Shape of a Life
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- Carlos Rangel
- 01-30-24
The Chinese Communist Party would love this book
I love reading biographies. But I am not a fan of political propaganda. This book has way too much Chinese loving content, it gets tiring and makes me wonder if it was really necessary to have so much of it. In the book, it almost feels like fluff. Now, I think China is a country that has a rich history and has contributed so much to humanity. With that said, I think the author loves to cast a blind eye to the human abuses the CCP is getting away with, not to mention the threat they pose to its neighbors including Hong Kong.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-17-24
One of the best popular math book
I really like the passion of Shing Tung Yau on math and his devotion for training students! He is a great mathematician!
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- Ley Ouchi
- 12-13-22
The shape of the author's life
I quickly took the book convinced by the cover and expecting some new perspectives on sacred geometry.
I am an artist and in the art world, we are taught that art matters, not the artist.
If you have time, patience, and wanna listen in detail to someone's life that you have never heard before that's the book.
I wish I can have my credit back.
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- Steven White
- 01-17-23
A book full of complaints
Not enough math. Just a bunch of the author complaining about other people, and sniping at them. Tedious and embarrassing to listen to.
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