Roger Penrose: Collected Works: Volume 3: 1976-1980
- ISBN-10
- 0199219389
- ISBN-13
- 9780199219384
- Category
- Mathematics
- Pages
- 720
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-10-14
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Author
- Roger Penrose
Description
The third volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose
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