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When We Cease to Understand the World

byBenjamin Labatut, Adrian Nathan West, Benjamín Labatut

Who is this book for? Readers interested in the intersection of science, philosophy, and literature.

Topics Technology and HumanityIdentity
MoodReflective
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 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 Schroedinger 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, Benjamin Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.

Language

en

Published on

01/07/2021

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781782276142

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