The Road to Reality
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The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose
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.Science needs more people like Penrose, willing and able to point out the flaws in fashionable models from a position of authority, and to signpost alternative roads to follow * Independent *
This is a tour de force that is unlikely to be bettered this decade * Financial Times *
Roger Penrose is one the world's foremost theoretical physicists, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020. He has won numerous other prizes, including the Albert Einstein Medal, for his fundamental contributions to general relativity and cosmology.
He is the bestselling author of The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe and Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe. His other books include Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind and, with Stephen Hawking, The Nature of Space and Time. He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and lives in Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099440680 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099440687 |
| Title | The Road to Reality |
| Author | Roger Penrose |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 1136 |
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