Mathematician:Roger Penrose
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Mathematician
British physicist and mathematician renowned for his work in cosmology.
The creator of the Penrose tiles.
Nationality
British
History
- Born: 8 Aug 1931, Colchester, Essex, England
Theorems and Definitions
- Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse (independently of E.H. Moore), also known as a Moore-Penrose Inverse
- Newman-Penrose Formalism (with Ezra T. Newman)
- Penrose Triangle (although this was first invented by Oscar Reutersvärd)
- Penrose Stairs
- Penrose Diagram
- Penrose Inequalities
- Penrose-Hawking Theorems (with Stephen William Hawking)
Results named for Roger Penrose can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Roger Penrose can be found here.
Publications
- 1972: Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity
- 1987: Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields (with Wolfgang Rindler)
- 1988: Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (with Wolfgang Rindler)
- 1989: The Emperor's New Mind
- 1994: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
- 1996: The Nature of Space and Time (with Stephen Hawking)
- 1997: The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind (with Abner Shimony, Nancy Cartwright and Stephen Hawking)
- 1997: Introduction to Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman
- 1999: White Mars or, The Mind Set Free (with Brian W. Aldiss)
- 2004: The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
- 2010: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Sources
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Penrose, Roger FRS (1931- )
- 2021: Richard Earl and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (6th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Penrose, Sir Roger (1931- )