The Emperor's New Mind

You currently hold the title of gresham professor of geometry. It's a position that was first established in 15 97, and held previously by some quite famous people. You are also the president of the british society for the history of mathematics. I'm edly not a historian of mathematics, but the names of a few other former gresham professors of geometry were familiar to me. And one of those was a gentleman named roger penrose. Got the nobell prize in 20 20 ind physics, and he worked on black holes. i remember reading one of his books when i was young and impressionable, and really being affected by it. He talked about these things called