When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut

ISBN 10: 1782276149 / ISBN 13: 9781782276142

Verlag: Pushkin Press Mai 2021, 2021

Beschreibung

Neuware -When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: 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.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 189 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781782276142

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: When We Cease to Understand the World
• Verlag: Pushkin Press Mai 2021
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1782276149
• ISBN-13: 9781782276142
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima. He has published two award-winning works of fiction prior to When We Cease to Understand the World, which is his first book to be translated into English. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile.