When we cease to understand the world
Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-2021
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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 Schrodinger 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, Benjamin Labatut plunges us into exhilarating territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness.
Main title:
When we cease to understand the world / Benjamín Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
Author:
Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-, authorWest, Adrian Nathan, translator
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2021.©2020
Collation:
189 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published in Spanish as Un verdor terrible, by Anagrama, 2020.
Awards:
Shortlisted: The 2021 International Booker Prize.
ISBN:
9781782276142 (pbk)9781782276142
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
507113
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Fiction - Sci-Fi | LABA | Onloan - Due: 09 Aug 2024 |