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Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He has received numerous prizes and awards, most notably the Wolf Foundation Prize in physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking. He is the author of three previous books, including The Emperor’s New Mind. He lives in Oxford, England.
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Cycles of Time
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
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 death or ultimate entropy—can actually... Read more >
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $15.95
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 death or ultimate entropy—can actually... Read more >
Cycles of Time
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $28.95
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... Read more >
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $28.95
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... Read more >
Cycles of Time
An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $11.99
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An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: eBook, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Price: $11.99
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The Road to Reality
A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $26.00
From one of our greatest living scientists, a magnificent book that provides, for the serious lay reader, the most comprehensive and sophisticated account we have yet had of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory.
Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the... Read more >
A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Written by Roger Penrose
Format: Trade Paperback, 1136 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $26.00
From one of our greatest living scientists, a magnificent book that provides, for the serious lay reader, the most comprehensive and sophisticated account we have yet had of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory.
Since the earliest efforts of the ancient Greeks to find order amid the... Read more >
