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 1980. (Courtesy: Anthony Howarth/Science Photo Library) ...

Roger Penrose is one of the world’s most prominent ... He is an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, and the author of several books about the nature of space, time ...

In September 1964, mathematician Roger Penrose crossed a road near his office in Birkbeck College, London, deep in conversation with cosmologist Ivor Robinson. Thankfully, they had paused at the ...