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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: penrose
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>>He was a geometer first. His early work was in projective geometry.

Watching Penrose last night on Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of
Time" (Channel 4, UK, 20.30 BST), I saw a lot of "Penrose diagrams".
This is a method of drawing a diagram of the Universe in a closed way:
some types inifnite future gets map to a point of the diagram.

Gordo.

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