Roger Penrose's 1,100-page comprehensive account of the mathematical and physical structure of the universe — covering everything from complex numbers to quantum field theory, string theory, and cosmology.
The most ambitious attempt by a working physicist to give a fully integrated account of modern mathematical physics for an educated non-specialist audience. Covers: complex numbers, manifolds, symmetry groups, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, string theory (critically assessed), loop quantum gravity, cosmology, and the second law. Penrose's assessments of string theory and other speculative physics are sharply critical and influential.
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