Janna Levin
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Janna Levin (born 1967 ) is an American theoretical cosmologist and professor of physics at Barnard College in New York City .
Life and research
She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and her Bachelor's in astronomy and physics from Barnard College in 1988. Her research includes the standpoint that the universe is finite. Other works deal with black holes and the chaos theory . She also studies gravitational waves . She became known to a wider audience with popular science books, namely How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space , her story A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines , which is about Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing , and Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space . In addition, she moderated various television programs on her research areas.
Web links
- Janna Levin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage of Janna Levin
- An interview about her story
- A representation of their topology
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120529060256/http://www.jannalevin.com/bio.html
- ↑ https://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue10/features/topology/index
- ↑ https://brooklynrail.org/2007/09/express/janna-levin-with-sylvie-myerson
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| SURNAME | Levin, Janna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1967 |