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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- author.     Subjects     Scientists -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- author.       by title:      When we cease to und...         MARC Display

When we cease to understand the world / Benjamín Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. by Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- author. New York : New York Review Books, [2020] Subjects Scientists -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781681375663 (paperback) 1681375664 (paperback) Description:  189 pages ; 22 cm Contents:  Prussian blue -- Schwarzschild's singularity -- The heart of the heart -- When we cease to understand the world -- The night gardener. Requests:  1 Summary:  "A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. 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 Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts at 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 to the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Fiction Labatut Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Labatut Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Fiction Labatut Checked out 06/19/2024 Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Fiction Labatut Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Labatut Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Molokai Public Library Adult Fiction Labatut Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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