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February 09, 1963

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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 ...more

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	The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory 4.09 avg rating — 98,418 ratings — published 1999 — 127 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality 4.13 avg rating — 38,855 ratings — published 2004 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos 4.11 avg rating — 20,045 ratings — published 2011 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe 4.03 avg rating — 5,255 ratings — published 2020 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein 4.11 avg rating — 1,680 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006 by Brian Greene (Editor), Tim Folger (Series Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	隠れていた宇宙 [Kakurete Ita Uchū] 1 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Brian Greene The Fabric of the Cosmos (Twelfth Impression) [Paperback] 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Icarus at the Edge of Time Publisher: Knopf; 1 Brdbk edition liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brian Greene Collection 3 Books Set by Brian Greene really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...”
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“When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level”
― Brian Greene

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“The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.”
― Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

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