Sir Roger Penrose :: biographies biography bio

Sir Roger Penrose, was born in England, in Colchester, August 8, 1931. His parents were both highly educated. His mother Margaret Feathe was a doctor, and his father, Lionel Sharples Penrose, was a medical geneticist. He and his brothers Oliver and Jonathan all went into the sciences. Jonathan became a psychologist, while Oliver, the eldest, became a mathematician. Roger was groom to be a doctor, but he swerved into another path when his give instruction would not let him have biology, and mathematics as his focuses. He was allowed two, and he could not give up math. Needless to say, his parents were wroth with him for a sequence for disrupting their plans, but he went on to graduate from University College London with a bachellor of sciences in mathematics, winning First Class honors.He later became interested in natural philosophy, through the inspiration of Dirac, Turing and Godel. He attended their lectures at Cambridge and found them fascinating. However, he continued his wo rks in mathematics, receiving a Ph.D in Algebraic Geometry. He is famous for his aperiodic tilings, his collaboration with Stephen Hawking on black holes, and in p ruseicular for his books on consciousness such as The Emporers New Mind. A less-well- cognize performance on his part was the development of twistor geometry, a concept that will be explained in further depth later on.Queerly, everyone in mathematics and physics has heard of him, and every dabbler in puzzles and games has probably used his tilings. more in England have probably even wiped with toilet paper way the pattern fall upond aft(prenominal) him. Yet he is not published in any standard biography of 20th century greats, he is known largely only by book reviews or in federation with Stephen Hawking. His personal life is closed off--all I found was some gossip that he had recently had a child with his wife (presumably, eh?) in his 60s, and that that wifes name was Vanessa Thomas, a consultant specializing in M athematica teaching programs and how to use them. This aft(prenominal) three hours searching newspapers, magazines, EBSCOhost and online resources.Yet he is regarded with awe in my clique of physics majors, his anti-AI books prompted ant anti-programming group based in Sweden to name themselves after him, and he has done research on fiundamental issues in physics today.Penrose is loosely termed gentle. His handwriting is rounded and soft, similar to a childs loopy writing. An interview with him in Japan reveals a contemplative nature as he describes art that he and his wife encountered there.