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67. _The Road to Reality_ by Roger Penrose

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 12:05 AM

Jan 2016

Very interesting but each chapter more or less demands jumping over yet another math text.
The first 400-odd pages are purely mathematical. Around page 400 it starts turning into physics.
The author seems to be a walking encyclopedia of mathematical physics.

It's very humbling

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