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. Among the new developments that occurred during this period was the introduction of a particular notion of 'quasi-local mass-momentum and angular momentum', the topic of Penrose's Royal Society paper. Many encouraging results were initially obtained but, later, difficulties began to emerge and remain today. Also, an extensive paper (with Eastwood and Wells) gives a thorough account of the relation between twistor cohomology and massless fields. This volume witnesses Penrose's increasing conviction that the puzzling issue of quantum measurement could only be resolved by the appropriate unification of quantum mechanics with general relativity, where that union must involve an actual change in the rules of quantum mechanics as well as in space-time structure. Penrose's first incursions into a possible relation between consciousness and quantum state reduction are also covered here.
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The fourth volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Collection of works of one of the eminent mathematicians of the 20th Century. Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles
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Collection of works of one of the eminent mathematicians of the 20th Century. Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles
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Product details

ISBN
9780199219391
Published
2010
Publisher
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Weight
1994 gr
Height
249 mm
Width
196 mm
Thickness
49 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
888

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