| Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 1: 1953-1967 Contributor(s): Penrose, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199219362 ISBN-13: 9780199219360 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $289.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2010 Annotation: Professor Sir Roger Penrose is one of the truly original thinkers of our time and has made several remarkable contributions to science from quantum physics and theories of human consciousness to relativity theory and observations on the structure of the universe in over 240 scientific publications. Here his works, spanning 50 years of science and including his previously unpublished theses, have been collected and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 510 |
| LCCN: 2010926298 |
| Series: Oxford Science Publications |
| Physical Information: 848 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. The first volume covers the beginnings of a career that is ground-breaking from the outset. Inspired by courses given by Dirac and Bondi, much of the early published work involves linking general relativity with tensor systems. Among his early works is the seminal 1955 paper, 'A Generalized Inverse for Matrices', his previously unpublished PhD and St John's College Fellowship theses, and from 1967, his Adam's Prize-winning essay on the structure of space-time. Add to this his 1965 paper, 'Gravitational collapse and space-time singularities', and the 1967 paper that introduced a remarkable new theory, 'Twistor algebra', and this becomes a truly stellar procession of works on mathematics and cosmology. |