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Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford - Roger Penrose, Ted Nelson, Maurice Bowra, Robert J. C. Young, Melvyn Bragg, Marcus Du Sautoy, Peter Derow (Paperback)
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Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford - Roger Penrose, Ted Nelson, Maurice Bowra, Robert J. C. Young, Melvyn Bragg, Marcus Du Sautoy, Peter Derow (Paperback)
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Pages: 25. Chapters: Roger Penrose, Ted Nelson, Maurice Bowra,
Robert J. C. Young, Melvyn Bragg, Marcus du Sautoy, Peter Derow,
Joseph Trapp, Edward Arthur Milne, Allan Chapman, Michael Nolan,
Baron Nolan, John Richardson, Joseph White, Thomas Lindsay, Jeremy
R. Knowles, Ian Brownlie, Michael Checkland, John Bell, Theodore
Wade-Gery, John Griffiths, Bernard O'Donoghue, Gilbert Ironside the
younger, Walter Blandford, John Swinton, Jeffrey Hackney, Richard
Congreve, Eprime Eshag, T. J. Binyon, Andrew Hodges, George
Forrest, John Williams, Richard Sharpe, Donald MacDougall, Peter
Carter, Joseph Wells, Roger Cowley, Benjamin Bickley Rogers.
Excerpt: Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an
English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of
Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and
Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has received a number of
prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics which
he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our
understanding of the universe. He is renowned for his work in
mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general
relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician
and philosopher. Born in Colchester, Essex, England, Roger Penrose
is a son of Lionel S. Penrose and Margaret Leathes. Penrose is the
brother of mathematician Oliver Penrose and of chess Grandmaster
Jonathan Penrose. Penrose was precocious as a child. He attended
University College School. Penrose graduated with a first class
degree in mathematics from University College London. In 1955,
while still a student, Penrose reintroduced the E. H. Moore
generalized matrix inverse (also known as Moore-Penrose inverse
after it had been reinvented by Arne Bjerhammar (1951). Penrose
earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge (St John's College) in 1958, writ...
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Books LLC, Wiki Series
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United States |
Release date: |
August 2011 |
First published: |
August 2011 |
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Source Wikipedia
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Books Llc
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 1mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
26 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-156-46743-5 |
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LSN: |
1-156-46743-8 |
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9781156467435 |
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