The subtitle of Roger Penrose’s new book modestly promises “a complete guide to the laws of the universe”. Remarkably, it almost succeeds in delivering on this promise. Of course, no book – even one ...

No living physicist has yet made a discovery as great as those of Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein, but Roger Penrose is in a better position to do so than most. Combining a mastery of mathematics with ...

At one point in Patchen Barss’s new biography of Roger Penrose, we find the author seated at a table in the Oxford flat of his subject, about to interview him for the first time. It is 2018. The ...

Amalkumar Raychaudhuri, a young teacher at Calcutta’s Ashutosh College in 1955, had developed a mathematical formulation that served as an elegant basis for the research by British physicist Roger ...