- Gödel's theorem, Quantum theory, Physics, Philosophy
A New York Times bestseller when it appeared in 1989, Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind was universally hailed as a marvelous survey of modern physics as well as a brilliant reflection on the human mind, offering a new perspective on the scientific landscape and a visionary glimpse of the possible future of science.
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- Author
- Roger Penrose
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 480
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press, Random House of Canada, Limited
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- French, English, German
- ISBN
- 9783860252604
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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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