Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. Many important realizations concerning twistor theory occurred during the short period of this third volume, providing a new perspective on the way that mathematical features of the complex geometry of twistor theory relate to actual physical fields. Following on from the nonlinear graviton construction, a twistor construction was found for (anti-)self-dual electromagnetism allowing the general (anti-)self-dual Yang-Mills field to be obtained. It became clear that some features of twistor contour integrals could be understood in terms of holomorphic sheaf cohomology. During this period, the Oxford research group founded the informal publication, Twistor Newsletter. This volume also contains the influential Weyl curvature hypothesis and new forms of Penrose tiles.
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The third volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Collection of works of one of the most eminent mathematicians of the 20th Century Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles
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Collection of works of one of the most eminent mathematicians of the 20th Century Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles
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ISBN
9780199219384
Publisert
2010
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Oxford University Press
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1710 gr
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249 mm
Bredde
196 mm
Dybde
40 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
720

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