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Labatut, Benjamin

 
9781782276142: WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD: Benjamin Labatut
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ISBN 10: 1782276149 ISBN 13: 9781782276142
Editorial: Pushkin Press, 2021

Sinopsis

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize

'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman
'Mesmerising and revelatory' William Boyd

At breakneck pace and with wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of great scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

As they grapple with the most profound questions of existence, these troubled men have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, 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. For sometimes, discovery brings destruction.

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Acerca del autor

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.

De la contraportada

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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Editorial
Pushkin Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1782276149
ISBN 13 
9781782276142
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Número de páginas
1
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ISBN 10:  1681375664 ISBN 13:  9781681375663
Editorial: New York Review of Books, 2021
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