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 (independently of ), also known as a Moore-Penrose Inverse
 * Newman-Penrose Formalism (with )
 * Penrose Triangle (although this was first invented by )
 * 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 )
 * 1988: Spinors and Space-Time: Volume 2, Spinor and Twistor Methods in Space-Time Geometry (with )
 * 1989:
 * 1994: Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
 * 1996: The Nature of Space and Time (with )
 * 1997: The Large, the Small, and the Human Mind (with, Nancy Cartwright and )
 * 1999: White Mars or, The Mind Set Free (with Brian W. Aldiss)
 * 2004:
 * 2010: