Corrections to The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose (Knopf, 2005)

 

Note: This errata page lists only errors which, at the time of discovery, were not already posted on Penrose’s page (http://www.roadsolutions.ox.ac.uk).

 



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101

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A particle that can exist on its own only if its quarkiness is 1. [Delete extra word.]

 

 

 

109

B

[Legend for Fig. 6.5(f) should read y = –2 + 4q(x), not
y = 2 + 4
q(x). The negative sign is missing.]

 

 

 

120

M

Yet the delta function does finds a clear mathematical definition within various broader classes of mathematical entities, the best known being distributions. [Delete extra word.]

 

 

 

121

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[In footnote 6.10, “Priestly” should be corrected to “Priestley.” Compare with footnote 4.9 on p. 85 and with bibliography on p. 1077.]

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 02 Apr 2005