Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss Impossible man Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford with his diagram of a twistor in ...

Roger Penrose is one of the world’s most prominent theoretical physicists who in 1965 produced the mathematics that showed how stars collapse to form black holes. With Stephen Hawking ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In September 1964, mathematician Roger Penrose crossed a road near his office in Birkbeck College, London, deep in conversation with ...