| Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 2: 1968-1975 Contributor(s): Penrose, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199219370 ISBN-13: 9780199219377 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 Here his works, spanning 50 years of science and including his previously unpublished theses, have been collected and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author.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: 960 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. Developing ideas sketched in the first volume, twistor theory is now applied to genuine issues of physics, and there are the beginnings of twistor diagram theory (an analogue of Feynman Diagrams). This collection includes joint papers with Stephen Hawking, and uncovers certain properties of black holes. The idea of cosmic censorship is also first proposed. Along completely different lines, the first methods of aperiodic tiling for the Euclidean plane that come to be known as Penrose tiles are described. This volume also contains Penrose's three prize-winning essays for the Gravity Foundation (two second places with both Ezra Newman and Steven Hawking, and a solo first place for 'The Non-linear graviton'). |