Learning on ScreenImagined Worlds. Part 8: Professor Roger Penrose
- Subtitle
- Professor Roger Penrose
- Synopsis
- Roger Penrose, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, has developed a new geometry for physics which attempts to go beyond Einstein’s theories in our understanding of space. He discusses the anomalies that motivated his research and how his new ‘twistor’ theory provides solutions to some of the problems of physics.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.
- Year of production
- 1982
- Availability
- OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
- Uses
- Science undergraduates.*
- Subjects
- Physics
- Keywords
- Penrose, Roger; physics theories
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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