Free Download Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius"
English | ISBN: 1541603664 | 2024 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 12 MB
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A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose-"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).
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
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