02041nam a22002657a 4500 20211110152842.0 211110b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0224044478 AL eng 23 501 PENR Roger Penrose 10172 Road to Reality: A Complete guide to the Law of the Universe London Jonathan Cape 2004 xxviii,1094 p. HB 24x16 cm. 30.00 £ 30.00 The Road to Reality is the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book. Roger Penrose's purpose is to describe as clearly as possible our present understanding of the universe and to convey a feeling for its deep beauty and philosophical implications, as well as its intricate logical interconnections. The Road to Reality is rarely less than challenging, but the book is leavened by vivid descriptive passages, as well as hundreds of hand-drawn diagrams. 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 inhabit. 'Roger Penrose is the most important physicist to work in relativity theory except for Einstein. He is one of the very few people I've met in my life who, without reservation, I call a genius' Lee Smolin https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226597688_The_Road_to_Reality_A_Complete_Guide_to_the_Laws_of_the_Universe Science 10173 Physics 10174 Quantum Theory 10175 Mathematical Physics 10176 Realism 10177 PENROSE (Roger) 10178 ddc GF 220499 220499 0 0 ddc 0 0 PHY AL AL 2013-03-24 0 501 PENR GF03621 2021-11-10 00:00:00 2021-11-10 GF