robinhoustonDoes this really work? I wish I had known when I were younger.
RobJLow@robinhouston That article also claims Penrose's doctoral thesis was on theoretical physics, but it was on algebraic geometry. 🤷
@RobJLow Interesting. Is that error in the book under review, I wonder, or was it introduced by the reviewer?
@robinhouston No idea about that, alas, I just happened to know about the thesis.
@RobJLow FWIW the book has it right, so the error must be the reviewer's.
@robinhouston A relief, because it would have been very worrying if the biographer got that wrong. But then you worry about how reliable the review is in other respects. (Which wouldn't be a problem if it couldn't affect the livelihood/reputation of the biographer....)