Name: When we Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut (in English)
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Author: Benjamín Labatut
ISBN: 9781782276142

portada When we Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut (in English)

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Physical Book

Author

Benjamín Labatut

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Pushkin Press

Synopsis "When we Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut (in English)"

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 minds 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.

Benjamín Labatut

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Es un autor chileno nacido en Holanda en 1980. Se crió en La Haya antes de establecerse en Chile, donde vive y trabaja. Es el autor de La Antárctica empieza aquí (2009), una colección de cuentos; Después de la luz (2016), una serie de notas científicas, filosóficas e históricas sobre el vacío; La piedra de la locura (2021), un díptico sobre la locura, el caos y la modernidad; y When We Cease to Understand the World (2021), un libro que explora el éxtasis y la agonía de los avances científicos y ha sido traducido a más de treinta idiomas.

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