Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe. His books include The Emperor’s New Mind, Shadows of the Mind, and The Nature of Space and Time, which he wrote with Hawking. He has lectured extensively at universities throughout America. He lives in Oxford.
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 chaos around us, there has been continual accelerated progress toward understanding the laws that govern our universe. And the particularly important advances made by means of the revolutionary theories of relativity and quantum mechanics have deeply altered our vision of the cosmos and provided us with models of unprecedented accuracy.
What Roger Penrose so brilliantly accomplishes in this book is threefold. First, he gives us an overall narrative description of our present understanding of the universe and its physical behaviors–from the unseeable, minuscule movement of the subatomic particle to the journeys of the planets and the stars in the vastness of time and space.
Second, he evokes the extraordinary beauty that lies in the mysterious and profound relationships between these physical behaviors and the subtle mathematical ideas that explain and interpret them.
Third, Penrose comes to the arresting conclusion–as he explores the compatibility of the two grand classic theories of modern physics–that Einstein’s general theory of relativity stands firm while quantum theory, as presently constituted, still needs refashioning.
Along the way, he talks about a wealth of issues, controversies, and phenomena; about the roles of various kinds of numbers in physics, ideas of calculus and modern geometry, visions of infinity, the big bang, black holes, the profound challenge of the second law of thermodynamics, string and M theory, loop quantum gravity, twistors, and educated guesses about science in the near future. In The Road to Reality he has given us a work of enormous scope, intention, and achievement–a complete and essential work of science
从古希腊人探寻我们身边的秩序与混沌的最早期的努力开始,人们对支配着我们生活的宇宙的法则的理解也在不断加速。而通过相对论与量子力学这样的革命性理论而取得的重要进展,已经深刻地改变了我们观察宇宙的视野。在这本书中,作者Roger Penrose首先对我们目前对宇宙的理解给出一个全面的概述,从我们看不到的亚原子粒子的微小运动到漫天星斗的运行。在物质的世界与用以解释和描述它们的微妙的数理概念之间存在一种关系,揭示这一关系中所呈现的美是作者接下来要做的事。在此基础上,作者又进而对现有的理论加以思考。依着这一思路,他在此书讨论了大量的问题、争论以及现象,不仅是前面提到的相对论,还包括正诱惑着科学家们智慧的膜理论等。作者彭罗斯早已为中国读者所熟悉,他曾于1988年与霍金共同分享当年授予物理学家的沃尔夫奖。他的作品《皇帝新脑》、《时空本性》(与霍金合著)此前曾在我国翻译出版。来自《星期天泰晤士报》的评论说,彭罗斯的书揭示了纠结在自然与人类想像力之间的美与精妙之处。
以我工科本科的数学基础,读到流形和群这里读起来太费力了,不知道这本书要求的数学基础要到什么层次?还是我太追求全面的理解了?实在是有点抽象。书中说可以跳过前面的数学,可是哦感觉后面的物理第一张读起来就逼得我从头看纤维丛,又从纤维丛看回了群和流形。。。。 光看本...
评分微分几何部分写得很好,布局有致,论述入理。比如复分析一章,对全纯函数等概念都有浅近深刻的讲解。而纤维丛一段,短短一节,把纤维丛的基本思想和本质特征写得淋漓尽致,看完顿生“原来如此”的感慨。又流形一章,概念清晰,分析透彻,即便学过流形的系统知识,看看也会有收...
评分看了前面两章,感觉非常好,没看出大问题,至少阅读起来还顺畅。 但是,将“有限域(finite field)”翻译成“有限场”令我颇为嘀咕了好一阵,对未来的阅读充满了怀疑。翻译者是学理科出身的吗?是不是还有些专有名词翻译不准确?希望看过的,发现问题的都来说说。 国内买不...
评分一般的读者在新华书店里随手翻翻就好了,这注定是一本无法"流行"科普书..........说实话这么一部大部头,这么多物理专业名词还外加这么多恼人的数学公式.........称它为科普书就太勉为其难了.........罗杰·彭罗斯是位了不起的科学家(离伟大还有很远)但他注定是位很平庸的科普作...
评分一般的读者在新华书店里随手翻翻就好了,这注定是一本无法"流行"科普书..........说实话这么一部大部头,这么多物理专业名词还外加这么多恼人的数学公式.........称它为科普书就太勉为其难了.........罗杰·彭罗斯是位了不起的科学家(离伟大还有很远)但他注定是位很平庸的科普作...
太难,放弃
评分太难,放弃
评分首先英文这关就过不去其次这书到底哪里有卖的啊啊~即便如此 还是想读一读~我想之所以没有所谓的港版或者台版是因为他们直接啃原著就完全ok的吧 哎~~~
评分本科生和优秀高中生都能读,物理系高年级本科生也许会感觉比较鸡肋哈
评分一千多页的煌煌巨著把现代科学涉及的数学、物理都一网打尽,难怪副标题标榜为A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe,名副其实。耐读,有深度而大全的科普书,赞!
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