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[44] Robert Greene, interview with author, June 24, 2008.
[45] Eugenio Calabi, interview with author, October 18, 2007.
[46] Robert Greene (UCLA), interview with author, January 29, 2008.
[47] Eugenio Calabi (University of Pe
[48] Ibid.
[49] Erwin Lutwak (Polytechnic Institute of NYU), interview with author, May 15, 2008.
[50] Calabi, interview, May 14, 2008.
[51] Eugenio Calabi, interview with author, June 16, 2008.
[52] Ibid.
[53] Eugenio Calabi, interview with author, October 18, 2007.
[54] Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, January 19,2007.
[55] John Schwarz (California Institute of Technology), interview with author, August 13, 2008.
[56] Michael Green (University of Cambridge), e‑mail letter to author, August 15, 2008.
[57] John Schwarz, interview with author, August 13, 2008.
[58] Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.
[59] Andrew Strominger, interview with author, November 1, 2007.
[60] Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins University), interview with author, January 25,2007.
[61] Andrew Strominger, interview with author, February 7, 2007.
[62] De
[63] Juan Maldacena (Princeton University), interview with author, September 9, 2007.
[64] Dan Freed (University of Texas), interview with author, June 24, 2008.
[65] Tristan Hubsch (Howard University), interview with author, August 30, 2008.
[66] Gary Horowitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, February 15, 2007.
[67] Eugenio Calabi (University of Pe
[68] Woody Allen, “Strung Out,” New Yorker , July 28, 2003.
[69] Liam McAllister (Cornell University), e‑mail letter to author, April 24, 2009.
[70] Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, August 10, 2007.
[71] Joe Polchinski (University of California, Santa Barbara), interview with author, January 29, 2007.
[72] Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), p. 372.
[73] P. Candelas, G. Horowitz, A. Strominger, and E. Witten, “Vacuum Configurations for Superstrings,” Nuclear Physics В 258 (1985): 46–74.
[74] Edward Witten (IAS), e‑mail letter to author, July 24, 2008.
[75] Volker Braun, Philip Candelas, and Rhys Davies, “A Three‑Generation Calabi‑Yau Manifold with Small Hodge Numbers,” October 28, 2009, http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0910/0910.5464vl.pdf.
[76] De
[77] Dale Glabach and Juan Maldacena, “Who’s Counting?” Astronomy, May 2006, p. 72.
[78] Andrew Strominger, “String Theory, Black Holes, and the Fundamental Laws of Nature,” lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 2007.
[79] Edward Witten (IAS), e‑mail letter to author, July 21, 2008.
[80] Petr Horava (University of California, Berkeley), interview with author, July 6, 2007.
[81] Ibid.
[82] Аллюзия на цитату из поэмы Томаса Стернза Элиота «Полые люди»: «Не взрыв, но всхлип». – Примеч. перев.
[83] Ronen Plesser (Duke University), interview with author, September 3, 2008.
[84] Ibid.
[85] Marcus Grisaru (McGill University), interview with author, August 18, 2008.
[86] Plesser, interview with author, September 3, 2008.
[87] Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), interview with author, August 19, 2008.
[88] Ashoke Sen (Harish‑Chandra Research Institute), interview with author, August 22, 2008.
[89] Jacques Distler and Brian Greene, “Some Exact Results on the Superpotential from Calabi‑Yau Compactifications,” Nuclear Physics В 309 (1988): 295–316.
[90] Doron Gepner, “Yukawa Couplings for Calabi‑Yau String Compactification,” Nuclear Physics В 311 (1988): 191–204.
[91] Kachru, interview with author, August 19, 2008.
[92] Paul Aspinwall (Duke University), interview with author, August 14, 2008.
[93] Wolfgang Lerche, Cumrun Vafa, and Nicholas Warner, “Chiral Rings in N= 2 Superconformal Theories,” Nuclear Physics В 324 (1989): 427–474.
[94] В. R. Greene, C. Vafa, N. P. Warner, “Calabi‑Yau Manifolds and Renormalization Group Flows,” Nuclear Physics В 324 (1989): 371–390.
[95] Brian Greene (Columbia University), interview with author, March 11,2010.
[96] Ibid.
[97] Doron Gepner, interview with author, August 19, 2008.
[98] B. R. Greene and M. R. Plesser, “Duality in Calabi‑Yau Moduli Space,” Nuclear Physics В 338 (1990): 15–37.
[99] Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), p. 258.
[100] Plesser, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
[101] Greene, interview with author, March 11, 2010.
[102] Greene, The Elegant Universe , p. 259.
[103] Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, September 19, 2008.
[104] Greene, interview with author, March 13, 2010.
[105] Mark Gross (UCSD), interview with author, October 31, 2008.
[106] Andreas Gathma
[107] David Hilbert, “Mathematical Problems,” lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, Paris, 1900, http://alephO.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/problems.html (html version prepared by David Joyce, Mathematics Department, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.).
[108] Andreas Gathma
[109] David Cox (Amherst College), interview with author, June 13, 2008.
[110] Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7 , 2007.
[111] Gross, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
[112] Ibid.
[113] Gross, interview with author, September 24, 2008.
[114] Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University), interview with author, June 26, 2008.
[115] Gross, interview with author, September 24, 2008.
[116] Mark Gross, e‑mail letter to author, September 29, 2008.
[117] Strominger, interview with author, August 1, 2007.
[118] Zaslow, interview with author, June 26, 2008.
[119] Gross, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
[120] Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University), interview with author, September 26, 2008.
[121] Aspinwall, interview with author, June 23, 2008.
[122] Michael Douglas (Stony Brook University), interview with author, August 20, 2008.
[123] Aspinwall, interview with author, June 23, 2008.
[124] Gross, interview with author, September 24, 2008.
[125] Avi Loeb (Harvard University), interview with author, September 25,2008.
[126] American Mathematical Society, “Interview with Heisuke Hironaka,” Notices of the AMS 52, no. 9 (October 2005): 1,015.
[127] Steve Nadis, “Cosmic Inflation Comes of Age,” Astronomy (April 2002).
[128] Andrew Strominger, “String Theory, Black Holes, and the Fundamental Laws of Nature,” lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 2007.
[129] Ibid.
[130] Hirosi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology), interview with author, October 8, 2008.
[131] Strominger, lecture.
[132] Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa, “Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein‑Hawking Entropy,” Physics Letters В 379 (June 27, 1996): 99‑104.
[133] Andrew Strominger, quoted in Gary Taubes, “Black Holes and Beyond,” Science Watch , May/June 1999, http://archive.sciencewatch.com/may‑june99/sw_may‑june99_page3.htm.
[134] Hirosi Ooguri, interview with author, October 8, 2008.