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    Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    Roger Penrose

    What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic…

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    The Impossible Man

    Patchen Barss

    An enthralling and moving biography of the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician and physicist, which explores his complex personal life alongside his astonishing scientific journey.

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    The Science Museum Stephen Hawking Genius at Work

    Roger Highfield

    An intimate exploratory tour of Stephen Hawking's office, providing a unique insight into the mind of a genius and the things that inspired him

    A behind-the scenes tour of the…

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    What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Nobel laureate Erwin Schroedinger’s What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. The philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a ‘beautiful and important book’…

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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works

    Roger Penrose

    The sixth volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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    Computerdenken: Die Debatte um Kunstliche Intelligenz, Bewusstsein und die Gesetze der Physik

    Roger Penrose

    In seinem Klassiker erlautert der international fuhrende Mathematiker und Physiker, Sir Roger Penrose, seine These, dass die geistigen Fahigkeiten des menschlichen Gehirns nicht durch Berechnungen von Elektronengehirnen erreicht werden koennen…

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    Kralin Yeni Akli

    Roger Penrose

    Bilgisayar ekranindaki goruntuler gercek dunyadaki olgularin bire bir temsili midir, yoksa sanal bir dunyada hayal mi gormekteyiz? Sakin evren dedigimiz, muazzam bir bilgisayar ekranindan ibaret olmasin? Bilgisayarlar bilinclendirilebilir mi? Yani…

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    Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity

    Roger Penrose

    Acquaints the specialist in relativity theory with some global techniques for the treatment of space-times and will provide the pure mathematician with a way into the subject of general relativity.

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    Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

    Roger Penrose

    One of our most distinguished scientists offers a radical new theory of the origin–and ultimate end–of the universe.

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    Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

    Roger Penrose

    What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? This book illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. It analyses the…

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    Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    Roger Penrose

    What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic…

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    Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe

    Roger Penrose

    What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic…

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    Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

    Roger Penrose

    By the author of The Emperor’s New Mind , this is an exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what…

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    The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

    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…

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    Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness

    Roger Penrose

    The bestselling author of The Emperor’s New Mind offers another exhilarating look at modern science as he mounts an even more powerful attack on artifical intelligence. Shadows of the Mind…

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    The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

    Roger Penrose

    One of todays most accomplished scientists presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. Penrose examines the mathematical foundations of the physical universe, exposing the…

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    The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

    Roger Penrose (University of Oxford)

    In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human…

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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 1: 1953-1967

    Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

    The first volume of six bringing together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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

    Roger Penrose (Maths Institute, Oxford)

    The second volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 3: 1976-1980

    Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

    The third volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 4: 1981-1989

    Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

    The fourth volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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    Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 5: 1990-1996

    Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)

    The fifth volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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    The Geometric Universe: Science, Geometry and the Work of Roger Penrose

    A collection of articles inspired by Sir Roger Penrose’s work. The book gives an overview of the interaction between geometry and physics, from which many important developments have emerged, collecting…

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    Zyklen der Zeit: Eine neue ungewoehnliche Sicht des Universums

    Roger Penrose

    Der neue Penrose ist eine Zusammenfassung von Penroses Sicht der modernen Kosmologie - diesmal unter Anwendung thermodynamischer Konzepte, die ein zyklisches Universum beschreiben: Die Entwicklung verlauft vom Urknall zum Endknall…

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    The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013

    Offers a panoramic view of mathematics in contemporary society; Terence Tao discusses aspects of universal mathematical laws in complex systems; Ian Stewart explains how in mathematics everything arises out of…

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    Mr Tompkins in Paperback

    George Gamow

    Since his first appearance over sixty years ago, Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many readers as the bank clerk whose fantastic dreams lead him into a world…

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    Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms

    Carlo Cercignani

    Presents the life and personality, and the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann. This book offers a description of his tragic life ending with suicide. A substantial part is…

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    Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms

    Carlo Cercignani

    Presents the life and personality, and the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann. His tragic life ending with his suicide is described in detail. A major part of this…

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    Visual Complex Analysis

    Tristan Needham

    This new 25th anniversary edition of Visual Complex Analysis introduces this powerful method combining complex numbers with ordinary calculus, and includes new introductory content and brand-new captions that fully explain…

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    The Nature of Space and Time

    Stephen Hawking,Roger Penrose

    Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein’s general theory of…

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    Visual Complex Analysis

    Tristan Needham

    This new 25th anniversary edition of Visual Complex Analysis introduces this powerful method combining complex numbers with ordinary calculus, and includes new introductory content and brand-new captions that fully explain…

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    Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields

    Roger Penrose,Wolfgang Rindler

    This volume introduces and systematically develops the calculus of 2-spinors. This is the first detailed exposition of this technique which leads not only to a deeper understanding of the structure…

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    Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry

    Roger Penrose,Wolfgang Rindler

    In the two volumes that comprise this work Roger Penrose and Wolfgang Rindler introduce the calculus of 2-spinors and the theory of twistors, and discuss in detail how these powerful…

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    Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics

    A. Zee

    Discusses symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics and tells the story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of nature.

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    Einstein’s Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics

    Albert Einstein

    In twelve months after the year 1905, Einstein shattered many scientific beliefs with five papers that established him as the world’s leading physicist. This book brings those papers including the…

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    The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

    Roger Penrose (University of Oxford)

    An introduction to Roger Penrose’s vision of theoretical physics for the twenty-first century.

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    The Impossible Man

    MR Patchen Barss

    A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose--"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus). When he was six…

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    Death and Anti-Death, Volume 6: Thirty Years After Kurt Gdel (1906-1978)

    Death and Anti-Death collects essays by professional philosophers and other professional scholars on issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed.

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    Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity

    General relativity ranks among the most accurately tested fundamental theories in all of physics. There are four contributions for each of the following mathematical areas: differential geometry and differential topology…

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    Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity

    General relativity ranks among the most accurately tested fundamental theories in all of physics. There are four contributions for each of the following mathematical areas: differential geometry and differential topology…

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    Artificial Intelligence Versus Natural Intelligence

    Roger Penrose,Emanuele Severino,Fabio Scardigli,Ines Testoni,Giuseppe Vitiello

    This book centers around a dialogue between Roger Penrose and Emanuele Severino about one of most intriguing topics of our times, the comparison of artificial intelligence and natural intelligence, as…

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    On Space and Time

    This unique volume brings together world leaders in cosmology, particle physics, quantum gravity, mathematics, philosophy and theology, to provide fresh insights into the deep structure of space and time. Subjects…

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    Applications and Experiments

    Consists of reviews on a multitude of advanced topics in the area, covering both classical as well as modern developments, while focusing on applications and experiments.

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