Through the Trapdoor
Steven Shapin: Roger Penrose’s Puzzles, 26 June 2025
The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
by Patchen Barss.
Atlantic, 337 pp., £25, November 2024,978 1 83895 932 6 Show More
by Patchen Barss.
Atlantic, 337 pp., £25, November 2024,
“... commonly have to root about in the archives for this sort of backstage material, but Patchen Barss has an enormous advantage with his subject. Penrose is still alive and active – aged 93 – and supplied the richest seam of ‘personal’ stuff. Barss is a Canadian journalist whose previous work includes ... ”
