| International Standard Book Number |
9781541603660 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1541603664 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
510.92 23/eng/20240202
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| Personal Name |
Barss, Patchen, author.
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| Title Statement |
The impossible man : Roger Penrose and the cost of genius / Patchen Barss.
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| Edition Statement |
First Edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
©2024
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Basic Books, Hachette Book Group, 2024.
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| Physical Description |
viii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
still image sti rdacontent
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The jungle -- Unexpected simplicity -- The arrow of time -- The impossible triangle -- Blink Bonnie -- Jablonna and Baarn -- Assassination -- The sky in a diamond -- The Penrose singularity theorem -- Hawking and Penrose -- Judith Daniels -- Trieste -- Aperiodic -- Faith -- The Gaugin decision -- Understanding -- Cycles -- Fantasy -- More time to think.
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| Summary, Etc. |
As a little boy, Roger Penrose and his father discovered a sundial in a clearing behind their home. In that machine made of light, shadow, and time, six-year-old Roger discovered a "world behind the world" of transcendently beautiful geometry, beginning a journey toward becoming one of the world's most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and physicists. In the years to come, Penrose earned a Nobel Prize, a knighthood, and dozens of other prestigious honors. He proved the limitations of general relativity, and he set a new agenda for theoretical physics. However, as Patchen Barss documents in The Impossible Man, success came at a price. Penrose's longing for knowledge was matched only by his inability to understand those around him, and he struggled to connect with friends, family, and especially the women in his life. His final years have been spent alone with his research, intentionally cut off from the people who loved him. Erudite and deeply moving, The Impossible Man intimately depicts the relationship between Penrose the scientist and Roger the human being. It reveals the tragic cost-to himself and those closest to him of Roger Penrose's extraordinary life.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Penrose, Roger.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mathematicians Biography. England
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies. lcgft
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