La mente nuova dell'imperatore. La mente, i computer e le leggi della fisica
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788817841429 (8817841420)
Publish date: 1992
Publisher: Rizzoli
Pages no: 624
Edition language: Italian
Penrose certainly has a generous idea of his readers' mathematical ability. It's a kind of running joke among Penrose-fans: he always starts his books by saying you'll find it tough going if you haven't got a 12th Year (in Portugal)/GCSE (in the UK) in math, but that he'll explain it as he goes if y...
Tabling this one for now... doesn't come in Kindle edition, and that's where I'm reading from lately.
I suggested that one could imagine Albertine's gang in A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs as a kind of wave function of girls (see my review), and that made me think of The Emperor's New Mind. Given that it's all about quantum mechanics, I suppose it's appropriate that I have two different and co...