Physicist collaborator of Escher and Hawking

Usage examples of penrose.

Transliterate them into Roman alphabet spellings and Arabic numerals, and somewhere, somebody would spot each numerical significance, as Hubert Penrose and Mort Tranter and she had done with the table of elements.

There was the bell in the tower, the great face of the clock below, and beside the open vestibule doors, old Amys Penrose, the bell ringer, dozing in a chair.

My idea was that if we were going to dig up Mr Penrose, then why not go one better than simply taking a few relics?

And it was open and from where we were standing we could see the nose of the dead Mr Penrose rising from it like a pink sharks fin or an isosceles triangle of flesh, or in fact numerous other things of approximately the same shape.

This remarkable fact led Roger Penrose to propose the cosmic censorship hypothesis, which might be paraphrased as “God abhors a naked singularity.

This is certainly a popular science fiction device, although Penrose, as we will discuss in some detail in Chapter 13, would argue that it is impossible because the brain is more than a computer.

If Roger Penrose is right (See Chapter 13), this may not be possible until we have a quantum computer able to match the quantum functions of the human brain.

Still, Gracie had not long before been shinnying flagpoles and wrestling Roger Penrose to the ground.

Penrose, sporting man, best-selling author of the Lazlo Woodbine thrillers and Brentford’s most famous son, was held the very next day.

Mr Penrose died in nineteen fifty-nine, in a bizarre vacuum-cleaning incident.