When We Cease to Understand the World-9781782276142

When We Cease to Understand the World by Labatut, Benjamin, West, Adrian Nathan

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Author: Labatut, Benjamin, West, Adrian Nathan

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 May 2021 by PUSHKIN PRESS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 192 pages
106 x 197 x 29 | 172g

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.