Patchen Barss; The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

Patchen Barss is a 2021 – 2022 Fellow

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.