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Roger Penrose

    Roger Penrose è un acclamato matematico e fisico britannico il cui lavoro approfondisce la relatività generale e la cosmologia. Il suo approccio alla matematica è spesso non convenzionale, intrecciandolo con indagini filosofiche sulla natura dell'universo. Attraverso i suoi intricati argomenti e il suo ingegno visivo, offre ai lettori un'esplorazione accattivante degli enigmi più grandi del cosmo. I suoi scritti sfidano il pensiero convenzionale ed espandono i confini della nostra comprensione della realtà.

    Roger Penrose
    Shadows of the mind
    Fearful symmetry : the search for beauty in modern physics
    The Road to Reality
    Spinors and Space-Time - Volume 2
    L'universo è ancora un segreto
    La strada che porta alla realtà
    • PowerShell

      • 94pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      Windows PowerShell is a scripting language and automation engine that is designed using object-oriented concepts with the .NET framework. It provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and command line components to manipulate servers and workstations using a scripting language that offers easy syntax.This book aims to serve as a beginner's guide to Windows PowerShell and will take you through all of its key features and components including commands, objects, the pipeline, scripting, and more!

      PowerShell2022
    • Komputery grają już w szachy na poziomie arcymistrzowskim, ale czy rozumieją tę grę tak samo jak my? Czy komputer może kiedykolwiek działać identycznie jak ludzki umysł? W tej pasjonującej i w wielu miejscach kontrowersyjnej książce Roger Penrose – wybitny fizyk i zdobywca Nagrody Nobla w 2020 roku - przedstawia pogląd, że istnieją pewne aspekty ludzkiego myślenia, których maszyna nigdy nie będzie mogła naśladować. Penrose bada, co fizyka i matematyka mogą, a czego nie mogą nam powiedzieć o sposobie funkcjonowania umysłu, i co musimy wiedzieć, aby zrozumieć fizyczne procesy leżące u podstaw świadomości. Autor dochodzi do wniosku, że do wyjaśnienia działania umysłu konieczne są jeszcze głębsze prawa niż mechanika kwantowa. Aby wesprzeć tę tezę, Penrose zabiera czytelnika w cudowną podróż, która obejmuje takie tematy jak liczby zespolone, maszyny Turinga, teoria złożoności, mechanika kwantowa, przestrzenie fazowe, czarne dziury, białe dziury, promieniowanie Hawkinga, entropia, quasi-kryształy, struktura mózgu i dziesiątki innych pasjonujących zagadnień. Nowy umysł cesarza to książka dla wszystkich, którzy poważnie interesują się współczesną fizyką i jej związkiem z kwestiami filozoficznymi, jak również ważny głos w debacie nad przyszłością sztucznej inteligencji.

      Nowy umysł cesarz O komputerach, umyśle i prawach fizyki2021
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    • L'universo è ancora un segreto

      Perché la scienza di oggi non è in grado di spiegarci tutto

      • 672pagine
      • 24 ore di lettura

      Da oltre un secolo, la fisica teorica ha registrato trionfi, dalle rivoluzioni della relatività einsteiniana alla meccanica quantistica. La ricerca di una Teoria del Tutto ha portato a risultati significativi, come il modello cosmologico standard, che descrive l'evoluzione dell'universo dal Big Bang e le sue possibili destinazioni, e la teoria delle stringhe, che propone una visione elegante della materia e dello spaziotempo. Tuttavia, Roger Penrose, con la sua consueta incisività, mette in discussione questa narrativa. Si chiede se l'eleganza della teoria delle stringhe e la sua popolarità stiano distogliendo l'attenzione da ipotesi meno spettacolari ma più solide. Inoltre, solleva interrogativi sulla validità delle attuali teorie cosmologiche, basate sul dogma del modello inflazionario, e sulla fiducia riposta nei fondamenti concettuali della meccanica quantistica, nonostante la loro fragilità. Con il suo sguardo critico e la sua originalità, Penrose offre un'analisi profonda e sorprendente delle forze e delle debolezze della scienza fondamentale contemporanea, invitando a riflettere sulla direzione della ricerca scientifica.

      L'universo è ancora un segreto2016
      3,9
    • Zyklen der Zeit

      Eine neue ungewöhnliche Sicht des Universums

      In dem Grundlagenwerk zur modernen Kosmologie wendet der Autor thermodynamische Konzepte an, um die Entwicklung des Universums vom Urknall über den Endknall hin zu einem neuen Zyklus von Raum und Zeit zu beschreiben. Dabei kommt er nahezu ohne Formeln aus.

      Zyklen der Zeit2012
    • Cycles of Time

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      From the best-selling author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology’s most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future?Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Roger Penrose—one of the most innovative mathematicians of our time—turns around this predominant picture of the universe’s “heat death,” arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the “Big Bang” of a new one.Along the way to this remarkable cosmological picture, Penrose sheds new light on basic principles that underlie the behavior of our universe, describing various standard and nonstandard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, and the key status of black holes. Ideal for both the amateur astronomer and the advanced physicist—with plenty of exciting insights for each—Cycles of Time is certain to provoke and challenge.Intellectually thrilling and accessible, this is another essential guide to the universe from one of our preeminent thinkers.

      Cycles of Time2011
      4,0
    • Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos ever be combined? In "The Nature of Space and Time," two of the world's most famous physicists--Stephen Hawking ("A Brief History of Time") and Roger Penrose ("The Road to Reality")--debate these questions. The authors outline how their positions have further diverged on a number of key issues, including the spatial geometry of the universe, inflationary versus cyclic theories of the cosmos, and the black-hole information-loss paradox. Though much progress has been made, Hawking and Penrose stress that physicists still have further to go in their quest for a quantum theory of gravity.

      Princeton Science Library: The Nature of Space and Time2010
      3,7
    • Fearful Symmetry brings the incredible discoveries of contemporary physics within everyone's grasp. A. Zee, a distinguished physicist and skillful expositor, tells the exciting story of how today's theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of Nature. Animated by a sense of reverence and whimsy, the book describes the majestic sweep and accomplishments of twentieth-century physics. In the end, we stand in awe before the grand vision of modern physics--one of the greatest chapters in the intellectual history of humankind.

      Fearful symmetry : the search for beauty in modern physics2007
      3,8
    • La strada che porta alla realtà

      Le leggi fondamentali dell'universo

      • 1113pagine
      • 39 ore di lettura

      Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with the complexities of our known world to the latest application of infinity in physics, The Road to Reality carefully explores the movement of the smallest atomic particles and reaches into the vastness of intergalactic space. Here, Penrose examines the mathematical foundations of the physical universe, exposing the underlying beauty of physics and giving us one the most important works in modern science writing.

      La strada che porta alla realtà2005
      4,0
    • Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished scientists of our time, presents the only comprehensive and comprehensible account of the physics of the universe. From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with the complexities of our known world to the latest application of infinity in physics, The Road to Reality carefully explores the movement of the smallest atomic particles and reaches into the vastness of intergalactic space. Here, Penrose examines the mathematical foundations of the physical universe, exposing the underlying beauty of physics and giving us one the most important works in modern science writing.

      The Road to Reality2004
      4,2
    • Ve chvíli, kdy krach nadnárodní společnosti Eupacus rozpoutá totální kolaps pozemské ekonomiky, zůstane na Marsu pět tisíc vědců, techniků i obyčejných turistů, odříznutých od zbytku lidstva. Žádné vesmírné lodě s turisty a materiálem již nepřiletí, televize přestala vysílat, pozemské komunikační stanice jsou mimo provoz. Osazenstvo několika kopulí je na nehostinné planetě odkázáno jen samo na sebe a rozhodne se nejen bojovat o přežití, ale také se pokusit vybudovat lepší, spravedlivější společnost, v níž by katastrofy, jaká právě postihla Zemi, neměly místo. Vyprávění několika hlavních protagonistů nám přiblíží první hektické období utváření nové společnosti a seznámí nás s těžko pochopitelnými výzkumy skupiny vědců, pátrajících po prchavé skvrně Omega, základní stavebnice hmoty. A kromě toho všeho je tu Mars. Nehybná, mlčící planeta, která však promlouvá k těm, kdo jsou schopni ji uslyšet.

      Bílý Mars, aneb, Osvobození mysli2003
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