The following is an excerpt from The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau. Copyright 2024. Available from Basic Books ...
In the past quarter century, astronomical observations have led to discoveries that have literally transformed our conception of the universe. One such transformation occurred in 1998, when dark ...
The books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe. Quanta Books is delighted to announce two new upcoming books by ...
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One line in a 2,000-year-old math book created entire universes
For over 2,000 years, mathematicians believed a single line in Euclid’s work had to be wrong — until attempts to fix it led to something far stranger. By slightly changing that one statement, they ...
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