عنوان

The geometric universe :

(Number (ISBN

0198500599

Number

b534217

Title Proper

The geometric universe :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

science, geometry, and the work of Roger Penrose /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by S. A. Huggett [and others]

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 431 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

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

Geometry

Mathematical physics

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Huggett, S. A

Date of Transaction

20141128233506.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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