出版社: Knopf
副标题: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
出版年: 2005-2-22
页数: 1136
定价: USD 40.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780679454434
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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 ...
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。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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...
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.
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人类在真善美的道路上奔向现实
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这真的是一本神作,且不说四五斤的份量用来砸人绝对可以把人砸晕,只看副标题的霸气侧露,“宇宙法则的完全指南”,作者的解释是“追寻主宰宇宙的深层原理,力图使读者对此获得一些直观的认识。” 一旦上升到宇宙层面,总是会给人不明觉厉的感觉。也有很多人在用自己的方式描绘... (展开)到了流形和群读起来太吃力了
最好能把书中留的习题都解答并汇编成书
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1 有用 大骏马 2021-10-28 07:44:59
抽象比具象更实在。 理解现代科学,儿童百科全书式的科普,既不能让人理解科学,也不有趣。如何理解现代物理,以至于理解这个世界,就应该如本书一样,把科学家思考的方式和逻辑呈现给读者,写出科学本来的样子而不是如简笔画一样,简单却失真。 阅读本书的快乐在于,如果你懂,妙笔处能会心一笑。而痛苦在于,非数理专业,很多内容是难以领会的。
2 有用 Shidao 2014-03-02 11:00:16
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
1 有用 VelvetShield 2014-11-06 09:01:28
这本书很难说是科普书,因为有一半都是在讲数学。谈到量子力学,广义相对论和弦论,它们的公理和假设不是源自科学观察,而是从数学中推导出来的,因此不可能在数学不好的情况下理解它们。不推荐。
1 有用 一颗甜橘 2019-05-30 20:52:16
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~~~
10 有用 陆沉 2018-06-23 13:37:00
我们的科学教育,从来不是太难了,而是太简单了。简单到只剩下最表皮的东西,简单到阻断了所有通往事物本质的思考回路,所以记忆中那些好天气里的一堂堂数学课,其费解和烦躁是再旺盛的求知欲也消解不了的,还不如只是干巴巴的把彭罗斯得书逐字逐句念一遍。
1 有用 杨冬 2023-02-11 22:48:03 北京
本书是彭罗斯写的“科普书”,主要是探讨了理论物理学的数学原理。应该说书是具有深刻思想的,对于想理解目前理论物理学家思路的读者是有价值的。但是确实非常难以读懂。目前我只读了一小部分。等读完后再更新对它的评价。
1 有用 琉璃 2022-01-18 14:21:57
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1 有用 大骏马 2021-10-28 07:44:59
抽象比具象更实在。 理解现代科学,儿童百科全书式的科普,既不能让人理解科学,也不有趣。如何理解现代物理,以至于理解这个世界,就应该如本书一样,把科学家思考的方式和逻辑呈现给读者,写出科学本来的样子而不是如简笔画一样,简单却失真。 阅读本书的快乐在于,如果你懂,妙笔处能会心一笑。而痛苦在于,非数理专业,很多内容是难以领会的。
1 有用 一颗甜橘 2019-05-30 20:52:16
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~~~
10 有用 陆沉 2018-06-23 13:37:00
我们的科学教育,从来不是太难了,而是太简单了。简单到只剩下最表皮的东西,简单到阻断了所有通往事物本质的思考回路,所以记忆中那些好天气里的一堂堂数学课,其费解和烦躁是再旺盛的求知欲也消解不了的,还不如只是干巴巴的把彭罗斯得书逐字逐句念一遍。