Brian Greene
Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1963 in New York City ) is an American mathematician and theoretical physicist who conducts research in the field of string theory .
Life
Greene attended Stuyvesant High School in New York and studied from 1980 at Harvard University . He received his PhD from Oxford University in 1987 with a Rhodes Fellowship and the work Superstrings: Topology, Geometry and Phenomenology and Astrophysical Implications of Supersymmetric Models . He was a member of the physics faculty at Cornell University from 1990 to 1996 , where he became a professor in 1995. From 1993 to 1995 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . Since 1996 he has been Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University in New York . At Columbia, Greene is the vice director of the University Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP).
Greene is married to Tracy Day.
Brian Greene is one of the founders of mirror symmetry .
With David R. Morrison , Paul Aspinwall, and Andrew Strominger , he showed that the topology of Calabi-Yau manifolds (which occur in string theory) can change at the Conifold point (a singular point in the modulus space ).
He became known to the general public through his books The Elegant Universe and The Stuff of which the Cosmos is Made.
In the US sitcom The Big Bang Theory , he has a guest appearance in the twentieth episode of the fourth season. There he plays himself in a presentation of his book The Hidden Reality .
Works (selection)
Popular science
- Brian Greene: The elegant universe: Superstrings, hidden dimensions and the search for the world formula , Siedler, Munich 2000 (born), ISBN 3-88680-699-5 ; Goldmann, Munich 2005 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-442-15374-9
- Brian Greene: The stuff that the cosmos is made of: space, time and the nature of reality , Siedler, Munich 2004 (born); Pantheon, Munich 2006 (Paperback); Goldmann, Munich 2008 (paperback). ISBN 3-442-15487-1 .
- Brian Greene: Ikarus am Abgrund der Zeit , Fischer (S.), Frankfurt 2010 (born), ISBN 978-3-10-025306-4
- Brian Greene: The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Laws of the Cosmos , Settlers 2012, ISBN 978-3-8275-0001-4
- Brian Greene: Until the End of Time: A History of the Cosmos , Settlers 2020, ISBN 978-3-8275-0135-6
Technical article
- Brian R. Greene: D-Brane Topology Changing Transitions . Nucl. Phys. B 525, 1998, 284-296.
- Michael R. Douglas, Brian R. Greene, David R. Morrison: Orbifold Resolution by D-Branes . Nucl.Phys. B 506, 1997, 84-106.
- Brian R. Greene, David R. Morrison, Andrew Strominger: Black Hole Condensation and the Unification of String Vacua . Nucl.Phys. B 451, 1995, 109-120.
- PS Aspinwall, BR Greene, DR Morrison: Calabi-Yau Moduli Space, Mirror Manifolds and Spacetime Topology Change in String Theory . Nucl.Phys. B 416, 1994, 414-480.
- BR Greene, MR Plesser: Duality in Calabi-Yau Moduli Space . In: Nuclear Physics B . 338, No. 1, 1990, pp. 15-37. doi : 10.1016 / 0550-3213 (90) 90622-K .
- With Paul Aspinwall, David R. Morrison: Spacetime topology change: the physics of Calabi-Yau Moduli Space , in Strings 93, World Scientific 1995, Arxiv
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian Greene in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ imdb.com: The Big Bang Theory - The Herb Garden Germination (Full Cast & Crew) , accessed January 10, 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Brian Greene in the catalog of the German National Library
- Columbia University web presence
- Brian Greene's publications on SPIRES
- Brian Greene . In: arXiv.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greene, Brian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greene, Brian Randolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |