The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics

Roger Penrose

OUP Oxford, Mar 4, 1999 - Computers - 602 pages

5 THE CLASSICAL WORLDThe status of physical theory; Euclidean geometry; The dynamics of Galileo and Newton; The mechanistic world of Newtonian dynamics; Is life in the billiard-ball world computable?; Hamiltonian mechanics; Phase space; Maxwell's electromagnetic theory; Computability and the wave equation; The Lorentz equation of motion; runaway particles; The special relativity of Einstein and Poincaré; Einstein's general relativity; Relativistic causality and determinism; Computability in classical physics: where do we stand?; Mass, matter, and reality; 6 QUANTUM MAGIC AND QUANTUM MYSTERY

About the author

Sir Roger Penrose is Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at Oxford. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for Physics which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their joint contribution to our understanding of the universe. His other books are Spinors and Space Time: Vol 1: Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields (CUP, 1987); Vol 2: Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (both with Wolfgang Rindler, CUP, 1986), Shadows of the Mind (OUP, 1994), The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking, Princeton University Press, 1996), and The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (CUP, 1997).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics; Popular Science Series
• Author: Roger Penrose
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1999
• ISBN: 0192861980, 9780192861986
• Length: 602 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General; Computers / General; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition; Science / General; Science / Physics / General