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" The road to reality : "
Roger Penrose.
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BL
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572345
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b401564
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| Main Entry
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Penrose, Roger.
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The road to reality : : a complete guide to the laws of the universe /\ Roger Penrose.
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1st Vintage Books ed.
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New York :: Vintage Books,, [2007]
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xxviii, 1,099 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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9780679776314
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: 0679776311
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Knopf, 2005.
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"January 2007"--T.p. verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 1050-1085) and index.
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| Contents
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The roots of science -- An ancient theorem and a modern question -- Kinds of number in the physical world -- Magical complex numbers -- Geometry of logarithms, powers, and roots -- Real-number calculus -- Complex-number calculus -- Riemann surfaces and complex mappings -- Fourier decomposition and hyperfunctions -- Surfaces -- Hypercomplex numbers -- Manifolds of n dimensions -- Symmetry groups -- Calculus on manifolds -- Fibre bundles and gauge connections -- The ladder of infinity -- Spacetime -- Minkowskian geometry -- The classical fields of Maxwell and Einstein -- Lagrangians and Hamiltonians -- The quantum particle -- Quantum algebra, geometry, and spin -- The entangled quantum world -- Dirac's electron and antiparticles -- The standard model of particle physics -- Quantum field theory -- The Big Bang and its thermodynamic legacy -- Speculative theories of the early universe -- The measurement paradox -- Gravity's role in quantum state reduction -- Supersymmetry, supra-dimensionality, and strings -- Einstein's narrower path; loop variables -- More radical perspectives; twistor theory -- Where lies the road to reality?
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Mathematical physics.
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Physical laws.
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Mathematik.
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Weltall.
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Gesetz Physik.
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Mathematical physics.
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Physical laws.
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US 2000rvk
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UB 7500rvk
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