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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  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: December 2010
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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 Here his works, spanning 50 years of science and including his previously unpublished theses, have been collected and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author.
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
Dewey: 503
LCCN: 2010926298
Physical Information: 1.6" H x 7.6" W x 9.8" L (3.80 lbs) 720 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
 
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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.
 
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