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| From | Mike Fontenot <mlfasf@comcast.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity |
| Subject | Re: Penrose's new book |
| Date | 2016-10-27 07:19 -0600 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <d8513ddb-1b2c-3fc3-2b95-e7347e4ed81d@comcast.net> (permalink) |
| References | <7505c382-b205-4514-85a0-c312e30e4339@googlegroups.com> |
On 10/25/16 9:20 PM, Ross A. Finlayson wrote: > R. Penrose's book is pretty great. > Thanks for the recommendation. I think Penrose does an amazingly good job in his books ...I've especially gotten (and continue to get) a lot of good out of his "Shadows of the Mind" book. > Otherwise my taste lies with, > for example, Davies as one of the great > explicators (and of very sound physics), > [...] lately I read some > Bohr and it was very good. > I also like Davies little QM book (which I bought based on Penrose's recommendation). But I've always found Bohr's writing to be very obtuse. Bohm and Dirac are much more to my liking (although they have quite different writing styles).
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Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-25 20:20 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book Walter Bautista <wabau@outlookbay.org> - 2016-10-26 16:47 +0000
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-26 18:57 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book Mike Fontenot <mlfasf@comcast.net> - 2016-10-27 07:19 -0600
Re: Penrose's new book JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 13:07 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 21:26 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-28 18:45 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2016-10-28 20:22 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-28 21:34 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 06:23 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 12:19 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-29 21:04 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-10-30 12:27 -0800
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 13:14 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-11-02 23:51 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-11-04 22:16 -0700
Re: Penrose's new book "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 20:02 -0800
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