Roger Penrose. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-691-11979-3
Acclaimed English mathematical physicist Penrose (Cycles of Time) gets to the heart of modern physics’ problem with subjectivity in this insightful and provocative pop-sci title. Scientific progress relies on finding a theory, backed up by...
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Roger Penrose, Author . Knopf $40 (1136p) ISBN 978-0-679-45443-4
At first, this hefty new tome from Oxford physicist Penrose (The Emperor's New
Mind
) looks suspiciously like a textbook, complete with hundreds of diagrams and pages full of mathematical notation. On a closer reading, however, one discovers...
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Roger Penrose, Author Penguin Books $17.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-14-014534-2
A physicist who believes that some aspects of the human mind will never be duplicated by artificial intelligence here supports his view with material drawn from quantum mechanics, brain structure and other theories. 75,000 first printing. (Jan.)
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Roger Penrose. Knopf, $28.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-26590-6
Where did the universe come from, why is it the way it is, and what is its ultimate fate? Eminent Oxford mathematician Penrose (The Road to Reality) finds "a profound oddness underlying the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the very nature of the Big
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Roger Penrose, Author, M. S. Longair, Editor, Abner Shimony, With Cambridge University Press $25 (201p) ISBN 978-0-521-56330-7
When Oxford physicist and mathematician Penrose (The Emperor's New Mind; Shadows of the Mind), has something to say about general relativity, quantum physics and artificial intelligence, we would do well to listen. So, too, with his Cambridge...
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Brian W. Aldiss, Author, Roger Penrose, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-312-25473-5
Aldiss (Hothouse; the Helliconia Trilogy) is one of the most important SF writers of the 20th century and a noted mainstream novelist and literary critic as well, but this largely unsuccessful excursion into utopian narrative is unlikely to win him...
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Stephen Hawking, Author, Roger Penrose, Author, Roger Penrose, Joint Author Princeton University Press $55 (150p) ISBN 978-0-691-03791-2
This volume contains a series of lectures delivered in 1994 by Hawking (A Brief History of Time) and Penrose (The Emperor's New Mind), renowned professors at Cambridge and Oxford, respectively. The overall topic is how mathematical physics might...
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