Name: When we Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut
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Author: Benjamín Labatut
ISBN: 9781782276142

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When we Cease to Understand the World: Benjamin Labatut

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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 "

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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He is a Chilean author born in the Netherlands in 1980. He grew up in The Hague before settling in Chile, where he lives and works. He is the author of Antarctica Starts Here (2009), a collection of stories; After the Light (2016), a series of scientific, philosophical, and historical notes on emptiness; The Stone of Madness (2021), a diptych on madness, chaos, and modernity; and When We Cease to Understand the World (2021), a book that explores the ecstasy and agony of scientific advancements and has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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