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

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : New York Review Books, 2020.Description: 189 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 1681375664 (pbk.)
  • 9781681375663 (pbk.)
Related works:
  • Translation of work: Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- Verdor terrible. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: When we cease to understand the worldDDC classification:
  • 863/.7 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ8098.422 .A215 V4713 2020
Contents:
Prussian blue -- Schwarzchild's singularity -- The heart of the heart -- When we cease to understand the world -- The night gardener.
Summary: "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 Schrödinger-these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut 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 for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear."--publisher's website.
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PQ8098.422 .A215 V4713 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001501138

"First published in Spanish as Un verdor terrible by Anagrama."--title verso page.

Prussian blue -- Schwarzchild's singularity -- The heart of the heart -- When we cease to understand the world -- The night gardener.

"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 Schrödinger-these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut 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 for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear."--publisher's website.

English translation from the spanish.

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