The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius
暫譯: 不可能的男人:羅傑·彭羅斯與天才的代價

Barss, Patchen

  • 出版商: Basic Books
  • 出版日期: 2024-11-12
  • 售價: $1,290
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,226
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 352
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1541603664
  • ISBN-13: 9781541603660
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
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A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024
A Financial Times Best Book of 2024
A Kirkus Best Book of 2024
A Daily Telegraph Best Book of 2024

A "beautifully composed and revealing" (Financial Times) biography of the dazzling and painful life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose--"a stunning achievement" (Kai Bird, American Prometheus).

When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Roger glimpsed a "world behind the world" of transcendently beautiful geometry. It spurred him on a journey to become one of the world's most influential mathematicians, philosophers, and physicists.

Penrose would prove the limitations of general relativity, set a new agenda for theoretical physics, and astound colleagues and admirers with the elegance and beauty of his discoveries. However, as Patchen Barss documents in The Impossible Man, success came at a price: He was attuned to the secrets of the universe, but struggled to connect with loved ones, especially the women who care for or worked with him.

Both erudite and poetic, The Impossible Man draws on years of research and interviews, as well as previously unopened archives to present a moving portrait of Penrose the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Roger the human being. It reveals not just the extraordinary life of Roger Penrose, but asks who gets to be a genius, and who makes the sacrifices that allow one man to be one.

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一本「精美且揭示真相的」(金融時報)傳記,講述了諾貝爾獎得主物理學家羅傑·潘羅斯(Roger Penrose)光輝而痛苦的生活——「驚人的成就」(凱·伯德,美國普羅米修斯)。

六歲時,羅傑·潘羅斯在他家附近的空地上發現了一個日晷。透過這個由光、影和時間構成的機器,羅傑窺見了一個「世界背後的世界」,那是超凡美麗的幾何學。這激勵他踏上成為世界上最具影響力的數學家、哲學家和物理學家的旅程。

潘羅斯將證明廣義相對論的局限性,為理論物理學設定新的議程,並以其發現的優雅和美感令同事和崇拜者驚嘆。然而,正如帕琴·巴斯在不可能的人中所記錄的,成功是有代價的:他對宇宙的秘密敏感,但卻難以與摯愛的人建立聯繫,尤其是那些關心或與他共事的女性。

不可能的人既博學又富有詩意,基於多年的研究和訪談,以及之前未開啟的檔案,呈現了諾貝爾獎得主潘羅斯和作為人類的羅傑的感人肖像。它不僅揭示了羅傑·潘羅斯的非凡生活,還提出了誰有資格成為天才,以及誰做出了讓一個人成為天才的犧牲。

作者簡介

Patchen Barss is a Toronto-based science journalist who has contributed to the BBC, Nautilus magazine, Scientific American, and the Discovery Channel (Canada), as well as to many science and natural history museums. His previous books include The Erotic Engine: How Pornography Has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to Google, and Flow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Patchen Barss 是一位位於多倫多的科學記者,曾為 BBC、Nautilus 雜誌、Scientific American 和加拿大的 Discovery Channel 以及許多科學和自然歷史博物館撰稿。他的前著作包括 The Erotic Engine: How Pornography Has Powered Mass Communication, from Gutenberg to GoogleFlow Spin Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature