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This volume provides an accessible, illuminating & stimulating introduction to Penrose's vision of theoretical physics for the 21st century. His enthusiasm & insight shine through this brilliant account of the problems of modern physics.
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- Author
- Roger Penrose
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 201
- Publisher
- Ediciones Akal, Cambridge University Press, Flammarion
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780521655385
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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is a British mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems. **Source**: [Roger Penrose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose) on Wikipedia.
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