Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist and philosopher of science, born on 8 August 1931, and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, and won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, and his eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged the discovery of quasicrystals.
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He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Unive
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mathematical physicist
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A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other
Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems (Wikipedia)
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The Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems (after Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking) are a set of results in general relativity that attempt
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