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When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible. -- From publisher's website
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When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut
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- Année de publication
- 2021
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Benjamín Labatut
- Éditeur
- Pushkin press
- Publié
- 2021
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 1782276149
- ISBN13
- 9781782276142
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Histoires vraies, Thématique philosophique, Sciences naturelles, Science, Nouvelles, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Cadeaux pour les dames, Scientifiques, Mathématiciens, Albert Einstein, Physiciens, Scientifiques de la nature, Alan Turing, 1912–1954, Niels Bohr, 1885-1962
- Première publication
- 2020
- Titre original
- Un verdor terrible
- Évaluation
- 4,1 sur 5
- Description
- When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible. -- From publisher's website