| Roger Penrose: Collected Works, Volume 3: 1976-1980 Contributor(s): Penrose, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199219389 ISBN-13: 9780199219384 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $289.75 Product Type: Hardcover 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 Here his works, spanning 50 years of science and including his previously unpublished theses, have been collected and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 503 |
| LCCN: 2010926298 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 7.6" W x 9.8" (3.80 lbs) 720 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. Many important realizations concerning twistor theory occurred during the short period of this third volume, providing a new perspective on the way that mathematical features of the complex geometry of twistor theory relate to actual physical fields. Following on from the nonlinear graviton construction, a twistor construction was found for (anti-)self-dual electromagnetism allowing the general (anti-)self-dual Yang-Mills field to be obtained. It became clear that some features of twistor contour integrals could be understood in terms of holomorphic sheaf cohomology. During this period, the Oxford research group founded the informal publication, Twistor Newsletter. This volume also contains the influential Weyl curvature hypothesis and new forms of Penrose tiles. |