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The Clay Mathematics Institute is now making available for free online<\/a> the books whose publication it has sponsored. These include the Morgan-Tian<\/a> exposition of the proof of the Poincare conjecture. Surveys in Non-commutative geometry<\/a>, which contains two excellent articles by Jeffrey Lagarias and Paula Tretkoff explaining ideas about the Riemann Hypothesis that have been motivating Connes and others recently. Also the excellent huge group-effort expository volume on Mirror Symmetry<\/a>, and a more recent volume<\/a> on the topic, which includes a good review article by Michael Douglas about the string theory motivations for this work.<\/p>\n There’s an interview with Susskind here<\/a> about his latest book. About anthropics and the multiverse he claims<\/p>\n …since I wrote \u201cThe Cosmic Landscape,\u201d it has practically become the conventional view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A couple of relatively new physics bloggers are Sunil Mukhi<\/a> and Marco Frasca<\/a>. P.P. Cook has revived his blog and is reporting from Eurostrings 2008 here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the posts worth reading over at Secret Blogging Seminar, there’s a nice posting<\/a> by A. J. Tolland explaining what a “stack” is. The comments contain a valuable discussion about the different versions of a “classifying space” that show up in this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some quick links: The Clay Mathematics Institute is now making available for free online the books whose publication it has sponsored. These include the Morgan-Tian exposition of the proof of the Poincare conjecture. Surveys in Non-commutative geometry, which contains two … Continue reading