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" The geometric universe : "
edited by S. A. Huggett [and others]
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BL
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712028
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b534217
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| Title & Author
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The geometric universe : : science, geometry, and the work of Roger Penrose /\ edited by S. A. Huggett [and others]
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1998
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xviii, 431 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0198500599
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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Roger Penrose : a personal appreciation / Michael Atiyah -- Hypercomplex manifolds and the space of framings / Nigel Hitchin -- Gauge theory in higher dimensions / S.K. Donaldson and R.P. Thomas -- Noncommutative differential geometry and the structure of space-time / Alain Connes -- Einstein's equation and conformal structure / Helmut Friedrich -- Twistors, geometry, and integrable systems / R.S. Ward -- On four-dimensional Einstein manifolds / Claude LeBrun -- Loss of information in black holes / Stephen Hawking -- Funda-mental geometry : the Penrose-Hameroff "Orch OR" model of consciousness / Stuart Hameroff -- Implications of transience for spacetime structure / Abner Shimony -- Geometric issues in quantum gravity / Abhay Ashtekar -- From quantum code-making to quantum code-breaking / Artur Ekert -- Penrose tilings and quasicrystals revisited / Paul J. Steinhardt -- Decaying neutrinos and the geometry of the universe / D.W. Sciama -- Quantum geometric origin of all forces in string theory / Gabriele Veneziano -- Space from the point of view of loop groups / Graeme Segal -- The twistor diagram programme / Andrew P. Hodges -- Geometric models for quantum statistical inference / Dorje C. Brody and Lane P. Hughston -- Spin networks and topology / Louis H. Kauffman -- The physics of spin networks / Lee Smolin -- The Sen conjecture for distinct fundamental monopoles / Gary Gibbons -- An unorthodox view of GR via characteristic surfaces / Simonetta Frittelli, E.T. Newman, and Carlos Kozameh -- Amalgamated Codazzi-Raychaudhuri identity for foliation / Brandon Carter -- Abstract/virtual/reality/complexity / George Sparling -- Interaction-free measurements / Lev Vaidman -- Quantum measurement problem and the gravitational field / Jeeva Anandan -- Entanglement and quantum computation / Richard Jozsa -- Penrose transform for flag domains / Simon Gindikin -- Twistor solution of the holonomy problem / S.A. Merkulov and L.J. Schwachhöfer -- The Penrose transform and real integral geometry / Toby N. Bailey -- Pythagorean spinors and Penrose twistors / Andrzej Trautman -- Afterword / Roger Penrose
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Penrose, Roger
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Geometry
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Mathematical physics
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| Dewey Classification
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530.15/6
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QC20.7.G44G463 1998
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| Added Entry
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Huggett, S. A
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