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About Brian Greene
American physicist, professor, and science festival chairman
Brian Greene is an American physicist and professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University. He is known for his work on string theory and for co-founding the World Science Festival in 2008. He directs Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics and serves as chairman of the festival. Greene also co-discovered mirror symmetry, a relation between two different Calabi-Yau manifolds, and described the flop transition and the conifold transition, showing how topology can change smoothly in string theory.
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Books by Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe
2000
The Fabric of the Cosmos
2004
The Hidden Reality
2011