The Road to Reality

Roger Penrose

ISBN 10: 0099440687 / ISBN 13: 9780099440680

Published by Random House UK Ltd Feb 2006, 2006

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Neuware -\*\*WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS\*\* The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book. Roger Penrose's purpose is to describe as clearly as possible our present understanding of the universe and to convey a feeling for its deep beauty and philosophical implications, as well as its intricate logical interconnections. The Road to Reality is rarely less than challenging, but the book is leavened by vivid descriptive passages, as well as hundreds of hand-drawn diagrams. 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 Penrose is the most important physicist to work in relativity theory except for Einstein. He is one of the very few people I've met in my life who, without reservation, I call a genius' Lee SmolinPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Road to Reality
• Publisher: Random House UK Ltd Feb 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099440687
• ISBN 13: 9780099440680
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 231W x 156H x 60D millimeters 231 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 60 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1067 grams

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Synopsis

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.

The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader — for example, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book.

Roger Penrose’s purpose is to describe as clearly as possible our present understanding of the universe and to convey a feeling for its deep beauty and philosophical implications, as well as its intricate logical interconnections. Rarely less than challenging, the book is leavened by vivid descriptive passages, as well as hundreds of hand-drawn diagrams.

The Road to Reality was a Sunday Times top-ten bestseller in the hardcover edition, with over 40,000 copies sold.

About the Author

Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. In 1988 he shared the Wolf Prize for physics with Stephen Hawking for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe.


From the Hardcover edition.