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The Impossible Man
- Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
Engelsk Hardback

The Impossible Man

- Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
Engelsk Hardback

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A Guardian Best Science Book of the Year

The first biography - ''a stunning achievement'' (Kai Bird, American Prometheus) - of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose

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.







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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781838959326
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1838959327
Udg. Dato:
14 nov 2024
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato:
14 nov 2024
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