by Roger Penrose · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483230473
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«Lo grande, lo pequeño y la mente humana» is the popular science essay by Roger Penrose, published by Ediciones Akal in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Penrose summarises and updates his vision of 21st-century physics, from the large-scale universe to the quantum world and the mind. The work contrasts his theses with contributions by Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking, and includes appendices on Goodstein's theorem and experiments to test gravitationally induced state reduction.
This title corresponds to the third volume of Ediciones Akal's Ciencia collection; the translation is by Javier García Sanz and the English original is titled «The Large, the Small and the Human Mind».
For readers interested in theoretical physics, philosophy of mind and popular science.
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. Penrose's eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged the discovery of quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman.
