Roger Penrose

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August 08, 1931 in Colchester, Essex, The United Kingdom

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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.

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Average rating: 3.91 · 3,551 ratings · 297 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose, Martin Gardner 3.67 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 1989 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe 4.05 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness 3.74 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe 3.52 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Large, the Small and the Human Mind by Roger Penrose, Malcolm Longair, M.S. Longair (Editor) 3.52 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 1, Two-Spinor Calculus and Relativistic Fields by Roger Penrose, Wolfgang Rindler 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Kōtei No Atarashii Kokoro: Konpyūta Kokoro Butsuri Hōsoku by Roger Penrose, 林一 (翻訳) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Fiziğin Gizemi/ Emperor's new mind Part 2 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Us Nerede?/ Emperor's new mind.Part 3 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1999	My rating:
	Bilgisayar ve Zeka/ Emperor's new mind Part 1 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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“We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.”
― Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

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