When We Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut - Hardcover

Labatut, Benjamin

 
9781782276128: When We Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1782276122 ISBN 13: 9781782276128
Verlag: Pushkin Press, 2020

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Albert Einstein opens a letter from the Eastern Front to find the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity; the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels deeply into abstraction and Erwin Schrodinger and Werner Heisenberg battle over the soul of physics. A mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness

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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.

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Albert Einstein opens a letter sent to him from the Eastern Front of World War I. Inside, he finds the first exact solution to the equations of general relativity, unaware that it contains a monster that could destroy his life's work.

The great mathematician Alexander Grothendieck tunnels so deeply into abstraction that he tries to cut all ties with the world, terrified of the horror his discoveries might cause.

Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg battle over the soul of physics after creating two equivalent yet opposed versions of quantum mechanics. Their fight will tear the very fabric of reality, revealing a world stranger than they could have ever imagined.

Using extraordinary, epoch-defining moments from the history of science, Benjamín Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.

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Verlag
Pushkin Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1782276122
ISBN 13 
9781782276128
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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