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100			_aLabatut, Benjamin
245			_aWhen we cease to understand the world
260			_bPushkin Press, _c2020 _aLondon :
300			_a189 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b399.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aTranslated from Spanish. Shortlisted: The 2021 International Booker Prize. Winner English Pen Award.
520			_aAlbert 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.
650			_aScientists
650			_aCreative ability in science
650			_aDiscoveries in science
650			_aTranslations into English
650			_aShort stories
650			_aMathematicians
700			_aWest, Adrian Nathan _etr.
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