About briangreene

briangreene

First Name: Brian

Last Name: Greene

Homepage: Columbia University

About:

Brian Greene, author of the bestselling books about string theory, The Elegant Universe and Fabric of the Cosmos, was educated at Harvard and Oxford. At the age of five, he could multiply 30-digit numbers. From Wikipedia: "His skill in mathematics was so great that by the time he was twelve years old, he was being privately tutored in mathematics by a Columbia University professor because he had surpassed the high-school math level. He entered Harvard in 1980 to major in physics, and with his bachelor's degree, Greene went to Oxford University, in England, as a Rhodes Scholar."

He is currently a Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia.