Explaining the Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
Wednesday, 03 Nov 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room/South Ballroom
Brian Greene is the author of The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory andThe Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality. He also hosted a three-part NOVA special, "The Elegant Universe," on PBS. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, and is widely regarded for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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