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.
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The sixth 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 Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles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 Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles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
9780199219414
Published
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
1908 gr
Height
249 mm
Width
196 mm
Thickness
44 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
808

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