Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 2: 1968-1975

ISBN-13: 9780199219377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 959 str.

Roger Penrose

Opis

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.
Developing ideas sketched in the first volume, twistor theory is now applied to genuine issues of physics, and there are the beginnings of twistor diagram theory (an analogue of Feynman Diagrams). This collection includes joint papers with Stephen Hawking, and uncovers certain properties of black holes. The idea of cosmic censorship is also first proposed. Along completely different lines, the first methods of aperiodic tiling for the Euclidean plane that come to be known as Penrose tiles are described. This volume also contains Penrose's three prize-winning essays for the Gravity Foundation (two second places with both Ezra Newman and Steven Hawking, and a solo first place for 'The Non-linear graviton').

O autorze

Sir Roger Penrose ist Rouse-Ball-Professor für Mathematik an der Universität Oxford und Mitglied der Royal Society. Für seine wissenschaftlichen Beiträge zur Kosmologie (insbesondere zur Theorie der Schwarzen Löcher) und zur Parkettierungstheorie (in die er die nach ihm benannte nicht-periodische Parkettierung der Ebene einführte) erhielt er zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Auszeichnungen und den Adelstitel der Britischen Krone.