Roger Penrose: 24 books
by Roger Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
The continuation of the adventures of Little Orange, as she and her friends attempt to locate the 7 Engines of Creation.
by Roger Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
A private detective story set in Tucson, gone horribly wrong.Hamish Howl can't quite remember how he became a gumshoe, nor how or when he hired his assistant, Friday. He's been hired to solve a murder in a world that's a mash-up of Studebakers and hovertanks. To top it all off,...
by Roger Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Book two of the Life During Wartime series. The brutal street war waged between the underground and the Department of Social Mores rages on through the streets of Tucson, but someone - or something - else has become interested in the situation.
by Roger Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Book three of the Little Orange trilogy. The world ends. You think that would be the end of everyone's problems. You'd think wrong.
Stephen Hawking: Denken ohne Grenzen
Mit Beiträgen u. a. von Brian Greene, Reinhold Beckmann, Michio Kaku, Vince Ebert, Harald Lesch, Leonard Mlodinow, Ulrich Walter und Ian Stewart
Language: German
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Am 300. Todestag von Galileo Galilei kam er auf die Welt, am Geburtstag von Albert Einstein, dem 139., verließ er sie wieder. Stephen Hawking ist zweifellos der berühmteste Wissenschaftler unserer Zeit gewesen. Kein Wissenschaftler, Einstein vielleicht ausgenommen, hat die Menschheit in den letzten...
Cycles of Time
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
This groundbreaking book presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us?
Penrose shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat...
Ludwig Boltzmann
The Man Who Trusted Atoms
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2006
This book presents the life and personality, the scientific and philosophical work of Ludwig Boltzmann, one of the great scientists who marked the passage from 19th- to 20th-Century physics. His rich and tragic life, ending by suicide at the age of 62, is described in detail. A substantial part of...
Relativity
The Special and the General Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Robert Geroch builds on Einstein's work with commentary that addresses the ideas at the heart of the theory, bringing a modern understanding of relativity to the text. He elucidates how special relativity is a reconciliation of the contradictions between the nature of light and the principle of relativity;...
by John Polkinghorne, Roger Penrose, Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
This book gets to the heart of science by asking a fundamental question about its essence: what is the true nature of space and time? Both defy modern physics and scientists find themselves continually searching for answers. This unique volume brings together world leaders in cosmology, particle physics,...
First Principles
Building Perimeter Institute
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In this second edition of First Principles, Howard tells the remarkable and unconventional story - with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour - of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. How was PI created from scratch, from first principles? What...
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