Impossible man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius
Barss, Patchen
Impossible man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius - London: Atlantic Books, 2024. - vii, 337p.: ill.; hbk.: 24 cm.
Includes Notes and Index
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on a journey to become one of the world’s most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and physicists.
Penrose would prove the limitations of general relativity, set a new agenda for theoretical physics, and astound colleagues and admirers with the elegance and beauty of his discoveries. However, as Patchen Barss documents in The Impossible Man, success came at a price: He was attuned to the secrets of the universe, but struggled to connect with loved ones, especially the women who care for or worked with him.
Both erudite and poetic, The Impossible Man draws on years of research and interviews, as well as previously unopened archives to present a moving portrait of Penrose the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Roger the human being. It reveals not just the extraordinary life of Roger Penrose, but asks who gets to be a genius, and who makes the sacrifices that allow one man to be one.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/patchen-barss/the-impossible-man/9781541603660/?lens=basic-books
9781838959326
Biography of Scientists
History of Mathematics
Theoretical Physics
Philosophy Of Science
Philosophy of Science
Limits of Scientific Knowledge
510.92 BAR
Impossible man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius - London: Atlantic Books, 2024. - vii, 337p.: ill.; hbk.: 24 cm.
Includes Notes and Index
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a “world behind the world” of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on a journey to become one of the world’s most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and physicists.
Penrose would prove the limitations of general relativity, set a new agenda for theoretical physics, and astound colleagues and admirers with the elegance and beauty of his discoveries. However, as Patchen Barss documents in The Impossible Man, success came at a price: He was attuned to the secrets of the universe, but struggled to connect with loved ones, especially the women who care for or worked with him.
Both erudite and poetic, The Impossible Man draws on years of research and interviews, as well as previously unopened archives to present a moving portrait of Penrose the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Roger the human being. It reveals not just the extraordinary life of Roger Penrose, but asks who gets to be a genius, and who makes the sacrifices that allow one man to be one.
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/patchen-barss/the-impossible-man/9781541603660/?lens=basic-books
9781838959326
Biography of Scientists
History of Mathematics
Theoretical Physics
Philosophy Of Science
Philosophy of Science
Limits of Scientific Knowledge
510.92 BAR
