Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Penrose Roger
yhteensä 55 hakutulosta
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
A definitive overview of the physical laws that govern the known universe offers an accessible introduction to the mysteries of cutting-edge science as it describes the physics and …
The Emperor's New Mind
For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of …
What is Life?
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. It was written for the layman, but proved to be one of the spurs to …
Visual Complex Analysis
Complex Analysis is the powerful fusion of the complex numbers (involving the 'imaginary' square root of -1) with ordinary calculus, resulting in a tool that has been of central …
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere …
How Consciousness Became the Universe: Quantum Physics, Cosmology, Neuroscience, Parallel Universes
The Nature of Space and Time
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory …
Road to Reality
In a single work of colossal scope one of the world's greatest scientists has given us a complete and unrivalled guide to the glories of the universe that we all inhabit. 'Roger …
Fearful Symmetry
The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications--from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, …
Cycles of Time
What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? This book illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. It analyses the second …
Emperor's New Mind
For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of …
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013
This annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, …