The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

Patchen Barss

345 pages first pub 2024 (view editions)

nonfiction biography science informative reflective medium-paced
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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 j...

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