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"A must-read.”―Avi Loeb, New York Times–bestselling author of Extraterrestrial One of the preeminent mathematicians of the past half century shows how physics and math were combined to give us the theory of gravity and the dizzying array of ideas and insights that has come from it  Mathematics ... Read More about The Gravity of Math: How Geometry Rules the Universe

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.  “An unexpectedly intimate look into a highly accomplished man, his colleagues and friends, the development of a new field o... Read More about The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

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 prove... Read More about The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions

In the twentieth century, American mathematicians began to make critical advances in a field previously dominated by Europeans. Harvard's mathematics department was at the center of these developments. A History in Sum is an inviting account of the pioneers who trailblazed a distinctly American trad... Read More about History in Sum: 150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825-1975)