[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,”
[90] Doron Gepner, “Yukawa Couplings for Calabi-Yau String Compactification,”
[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
[94] В. R. Greene, C. Vafa, N. P. Warner, “Calabi-Yau Manifolds and Renormalization Group Flows,”
[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,”
[99] Brian Greene,
[100] Plesser, interview with author, September 19, 2008.
[101] Greene, interview with author, March 11, 2010.
[102] Greene, T
[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 Gathmann (University of Kaiserslautern), interview with author, August 25, 2008.
[107] David Hilbert, “Mathematical Problems,” lecture, International Congress of Mathematicians, Paris, 1900,(html version prepared by David Joyce, Mathematics Department, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.).
[108] Andreas Gathmann, “Mirror Principle I,”
[109] David Cox (Amherst College), interview with author, June 13, 2008.
[110] Andrew Strominger (Harvard University), interview with author, February
[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,”
[127] Steve Nadis, “Cosmic Inflation Comes of Age,”
[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,”
[133] Andrew Strominger, quoted in Gary Taubes, “Black Holes and Beyond,”
[134] Hirosi Ooguri, interview with author, October 8, 2008.
[135] Strominger, quoted in Taubes, “Black Holes and Beyond.”
[136] Xi Yin (Harvard University), interview with author, October 14, 2008.
[137] Ibid.
[138] Xi Yin, interview with author, October 22, 2008.
[139] Frederik Denef (Harvard University), interview with author, August 26, 2008.
[140] Xi Yin, interview with author, October 14, 2008.
[141] Aaron Simons, interview with author, February 9, 2007.
[142] Ibid.
[143] J. M. Maldacena, A. Strominger, and E. Witten, “Black Hole Entropy in M-Theory”
[144] Juan Maldacena (IAS), interview with author, September 4, 2008.
[145] Hirosi Ooguri, Andrew Strominger, and Cumrun Vafa, “Black Hole Attractors and the Topological String,”