Steven Scott Gubser was a professor of theoretical physics at Princeton University. His research focused on theoretical particle physics, particularly string theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence. Gubser's work, notably his pivotal 1998 paper, precisely articulated the AdS/CFT duality. He was a widely cited scholar in these and related fields.
The Little Book of Black Holes by Gubser and Pretorius provides an elegantly brief introduction to the basic properties of black holes and their occurrence in the universe. I warmly recommend it to the general reader.--Roger Penrose, author of Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
String theory has been called the 'theory of everything'. It seeks to describe all the fundamental forces of nature. It encompasses gravity and quantum mechanics in one unifying theory. This title presents an introduction to one of the most talked-about areas of physics.