✍ Joshua Ferris
📂 Fiction
📅 2007
🏛 Little, Brown and Company
🌐 English
⚖ 213 KB
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✦ LIBER ✦
When We Cease to Understand the World
✍ Scribed by Benjamín Labatut
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 104 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1782276130
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman
'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William Boyd
Sometimes discovery brings destruction
When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.
Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled lives we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.
With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
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