Science
Soup and wine with Roger Penrose, master of gravity, light and infinity – The Guardian
In an extract from his new book, a colleague recalls a meal with the mathematician who shared the 2020 Nobel prize in physics
I had the pleasure of meeting Roger Penrose, the great mathematician from Oxford, when he was passing through Italy for the Festival of Science in Genoa. Penrose is a polyhedral intellectual. Readers know him for several books, among them the dense and wonderful The Road to Reality, a great panorama of contemporary physics and mathematics, a popular work that is not easy and that shines with intelligence and profundity on every page.
Among his main contributions to our knowledge of the universe…
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