Description: When We Cease to Understand the World, Paperback by Labatut, Benjamin; West, Adrian Nathan (TRN), ISBN 1681375664, ISBN-13 9781681375663, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life to the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible"--
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Original Language: Spanish
Book Title: When We Cease to Understand the World
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Biographical, Historical, Alternative History
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.5 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 9.2 Oz
Author: Benjamin Labatut
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
