{"id":264096,"date":"2024-11-08T04:36:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/the-impossible-man-review-what-is-the-price-of-genius-asks-biography-of-roger-penrose\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:34","slug":"the-impossible-man-review-what-is-the-price-of-genius-asks-biography-of-roger-penrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/08\/the-impossible-man-review-what-is-the-price-of-genius-asks-biography-of-roger-penrose\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impossible Man review: What is the price of genius, asks biography of Roger Penrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"901\" alt=\"2X1H226 Klosterneuburg - Sir Roger Penrose during interview with Austria Presse Agentur at Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria on 21st May 2015. Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. - 20150521_PD11744 - Rechteinfo: Rights Managed (RM)\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/05121614\/SEI_227583130.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2454846\" data-caption=\"Roger Penrose, at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria\" data-credit=\"APA-PictureDesk\/Alamy\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Roger Penrose, at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">APA-PictureDesk\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Impossible Man<\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Patchen Barss <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantic-books.co.uk\/book\/the-impossible-man\/\">(Atlantic Books<\/a> (UK, 14 November); Basic Books (US, 12 November))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people still believe (and many scientists tell themselves) that genius is a solitary affair, that what they do is so important it merits exemption from everyday life and the obligations of intimate relationships.<\/p>\n<p>As his subtitle suggests, Patchen Barss doesn\u2019t endorse this notion in <i>The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius<\/i>, as he charts the life of one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. The biography\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435162-400-what-is-the-price-of-genius-asks-biography-of-roger-penrose\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Roger Penrose, at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria APA-PictureDesk\/Alamy The Impossible ManPatchen Barss (Atlantic Books (UK, 14 November); Basic Books (US, 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}