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Author Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- author.

Title When we cease to understand the world / Benjamin Labatut ; translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.

Publication Info. New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prussian blue -- Schwarzschild's singularity -- The heart of the heart -- When we cease to understand the world -- The night gardener.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- -- Translations into English.
Scientists -- Fiction.
Scientists.
Genre/Form Fiction.
short stories.
Short stories.
Translations.
Short stories.
Nouvelles.
Fiction.
Added Author West, Adrian Nathan, translator.
Added Title Verdor terrible. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2021006577
Other Form: Print version: Labatut, Benjamin. When We Cease to Understand the World. New York : New York Review Books, ©2021 9781681375663
ISBN 9781681375670 (electronic book)
1681375672 (electronic book)
9781782276128 (hardback)
1782276122 (hardback)
9781782276142 (paperback)
1782276149 (paperback)
9781681375663 (paperback)
1681375664 (paperback)