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Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 2000), p. 258.
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Plesser, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Greene, interview with author, March 11, 2010.
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Greene, The Elegant Universe, p. 259.
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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Greene, interview with author, March 13, 2010.
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Mark Gross (UCSD), interview with author, October 31, 2008.
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Andreas Gathmann (University of Kaiserslautern), interview with author, August 25, 2008.
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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.).
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Andreas Gathmann, “Mirror Principle I,” Mathematical Reviews, MR1621573, 1999.
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David Cox (Amherst College), interview with author, June 13, 2008.
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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.
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Gross, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Ibid.
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Gross, interview with author, September 24, 2008.
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Eric Zaslow (Northwestern University), interview with author, June 26, 2008.
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Gross, interview with author, September 24, 2008.
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Mark Gross, e-mail letter to author, September 29, 2008.
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Strominger, interview with author, August 1, 2007.
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Zaslow, interview with author, June 26, 2008.
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Gross, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
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Yan Soibelman (Kansas State University), interview with author, September 26, 2008.
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Aspinwall, interview with author, June 23, 2008.
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Michael Douglas (Stony Brook University), interview with author, August 20, 2008.
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Aspinwall, interview with author, June 23, 2008.
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Gross, interview with author, September 24, 2008.
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Avi Loeb (Harvard University), interview with author, September 25,2008.
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American Mathematical Society, “Interview with Heisuke Hironaka,” Notices of the AMS 52, no. 9 (October 2005): 1,015.
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Steve Nadis, “Cosmic Inflation Comes of Age,” Astronomy (April 2002).
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Andrew Strominger, “String Theory, Black Holes, and the Fundamental Laws of Nature,” lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 4, 2007.
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Ibid.
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Hirosi Ooguri (California Institute of Technology), interview with author, October 8, 2008.
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Strominger, lecture.
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Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa, “Microscopic Origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy,” Physics Letters В 379 (June 27, 1996): 99-104.
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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.
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Hirosi Ooguri, interview with author, October 8, 2008.
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Strominger, quoted in Taubes, “Black Holes and Beyond.”
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Xi Yin (Harvard University), interview with author, October 14, 2008.
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Ibid.
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Xi Yin, interview with author, October 22, 2008.
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Frederik Denef (Harvard University), interview with author, August 26, 2008.
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Xi Yin, interview with author, October 14, 2008.
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Aaron Simons, interview with author, February 9, 2007.
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Ibid.
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J. M. Maldacena, A. Strominger, and E. Witten, “Black Hole Entropy in M-Theory” Journal of High Energy Physics 9712 (1997), http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hepth/pdf/9711/9711053vl.pdf.
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Juan Maldacena (IAS), interview with author, September 4, 2008.
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Hirosi Ooguri, Andrew Strominger, and Cumrun Vafa, “Black Hole Attractors and the Topological String,” Physical Review D 70 (2004).
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Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University), interviewwith author, September 26, 2008.
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James Sparks (Harvard University), interview with author, February 6, 2007.
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Amanda Gefter, “The Elephant and the Event Horizon,” New Scientist (October 26,2006): 36–39.
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John Preskill, “On Hawking’s Concession,” July 24, 2004, http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/jp_24jul04.html.
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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.
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Juan Maldacena, “The Illusion of Gravity,” Scientific American, November 2005, pp. 57–58, 61.
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Davide Castelvecchi, “Shadow World,” Science News 172 (November 17,2007).
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Taubes, “Black Holes and Beyond.”
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L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2004), p. 111.
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Volker Braun (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), interview with author, November 4, 2008.
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Philip Candelas (Oxford University), interview with author, December 1, 2008.
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Ibid.
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Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February 7, 2007.
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Cumrun Vafa, “The Geometry of Grand Unified Theories,” lecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., August 29, 2008.
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Chris Beasley (Stony Brook University), interview with author, November 13, 2008.
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Burt Оvrut (University of Pennsylvania), interview with author, July 20, 2008.
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Ovrut, interview with author, February 2, 2007.
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Ron Donagi (University of Pennsylvania), interview with author, November 14, 2008.
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Donagi, interview with author, November 19, 2008.
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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.
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Donagi, interview with author, May 3, 2008
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Ovrut, interview with author, November 20, 2008.
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Donagi, interview with author, November 20, 2008.
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Ovrut, interview with author, November 20, 2008.
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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), interview with author, November 4, 2008.
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Michael Douglas (Stony Brook University), interview with author, August 20, 2008.
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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.
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Simon Donaldson (Imperial College), interview with author, November 29, 2008.
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Ovrut, interview with author, November 19, 2008.
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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.
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Strominger, interview with author, February 7, 2007.
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Adrian Cho, “String Theory Gets Real — Sort Of,” Science 306 (November 26, 2004): 1,461.
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Candelas, interview with author, December 1, 2008.
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Allan Adams (MIT), interview with author, November 15, 2008.
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Gary Shiu, quoted in Adrian Cho, “String Theory Gets Real — Sort Of” Science 306 (November 26, 2004): 1,461.
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Shamit Kachru (Stanford University), e-mail letter to author, December 6, 2008.
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Shamit Kachru, Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Sandip Trivedi, “De Sitter Vacua in String Theory,” Physical Review D 68 (2003).
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Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins University), interview with author, February 22,