Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2 - Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-time Geometry (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics): Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-time Geometry Vol 2 by Penrose/Rindler

Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

by Roger Penrose

Volume 2 introduces the theory of twistors and two-spinors and shows how it can be applied. Includes a comprehensive treatment of the conformal approach to space-time infinity with results on general relativistic mass and angular momentum.

Genres: Physics, Science

Paperback Bunko

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Sir Roger Penrose is a British mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in 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.
Penrose has contributed to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared 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".