By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius, by Patchen Barss ...

In the years following his hugely successful book The Emperor’s New Mind, in which he argued that there is a quantum aspect to human consciousness, Roger Penrose has acquired a reputation among his ...

Books we're reading and loving this week ... In the end, the scene lands exactly when it happens in the chronology of Roger Penrose’s life as one of the era’s most unique and agile thinkers.

Roger Penrose is one of the world’s most prominent ... and the author of several books about the nature of space, time and reality. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

It has to be that,” says Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose ... In his 1989 pioneering book on consciousness, Emperor’s New Mind, Penrose first proposed the idea ...

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius Patchen Barss Basic (2024) In the early days of a book project that would span six years, writer Patchen Barss had the best stroke of luck ...

The mathematician and physicist Sir Roger Penrose was born in Colchester in 1931, two-and-a-half billion years after electromagnetic radiation first developed life on Earth, 250 years after an ...