| Roger Penrose: Collected Works, Volume 6: 1997-2003 Contributor(s): Penrose, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199219419 ISBN-13: 9780199219414 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 Here his works, spanning 50 years of science and including his previously unpublished theses, have been collected and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Mathematics - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 530.15 |
| Physical Information: 1.7" H x 7.7" W x 9.8" (4.10 lbs) 808 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. This sixth volume describes an actual experiment to measure the length of time that a quantum superposition might last (developing the Diósi-Penrose proposal). It also discusses the significant progress made in relation to incorporating the 'googly' information for a gravitational field into the structure of a curved twistor space. Penrose also covers such things as the geometry of light rays in relation to twistor-space structures, the utility of complex numbers in drawing three-dimensional shapes, and the geometrical representation of different types of musical scales. The turn of the millennium was also an opportunity to reflect on progress in many areas up until that point. |