Mathematician:Roger Penrose

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

 * Penrose Tiles


 * Moore-Penrose Pseudoinverse (with E.H. Moore)
 * Newman-Penrose Formalism (with Ezra T. Newman)
 * Penrose Triangle (although this was first invented by Oscar Reutersvärd)
 * Penrose Stairs
 * Penrose Diagram
 * Penrose inequalities

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 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:
 * 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)
 * 1999: White Mars or, The Mind Set Free (with Brian W. Aldiss)
 * 2004:
 * 2010: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe