〈著者紹介〉 ブライアン・グリーン Brian Greene 理論物理学者。ハーバード大学を卒業後、オックスフォード大学で博士号取得。現在はコロンビア大学物理学・数学教授。超弦理論や宇宙論の分野で数々の業績をあげ研究者として第一線で活躍するかたわら、科学の普及のための活動にも力を注ぐ。超弦理論を解説した一般向けの著作である『エレガントな宇宙』は各国で翻訳され、全世界で累計100万部を超えるベストセラーとなった。続く『宇宙を織りなすもの』『隠れていた宇宙』も全米ベストセラーとなる。
Brian Randolph Greene is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 1990–1995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild form of topology change, showing that topology in string theory can change at the conifold point. Greene has become known to a wider audience through his books for the general public, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Hidden Reality, and related PBS television specials. He also appeared on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Herb Garden Germination", as well as the films Frequency and The Last Mimzy. He is currently a member of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.