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Roger Penrose, a Rare card
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 176
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 410,000
Power 176 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Roger Penrose quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Roger Penrose card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his ______ and Ascending and Descending.
Answer
Waterfall. He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. From the Roger Penrose article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Unification of Italy. Unification of Italy 91 · Roger Penrose 84 · Molotov cocktail 81 · Osman Hadi 76 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London.
- He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and 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, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Roger Penrose article was read about 410,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get Roger Penrose
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Roger Penrose (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Cirone-Musi, Festival della Scienza, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
