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Shing-Tung Yau
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in Shantou, China
April 04, 1949
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“Microchip manufactures, similarly, cannot make their transistors too thin, or the performance of these devices will suffer from electon leakage due to tunneling effects.”
― The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
― The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
“Although that might seem inconsetuqntial, a 1 percent difference can be significantly big in cosmology. And the recently launched Planck observatory should be able to make spectral index measurements to at least that level of sensitivity.”
― The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
― The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
“A lot of the mathematics discoveries occur through lucky accidents like that, [Calabi notes]. It's often a matter of connecting up ideas that might seem unrelated and then exploiting the newfound connection.”
― The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
― The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions
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