When we cease to understand the world
Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-2020
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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.
When we cease to understand the world / Benjamín Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
Labatut, Benjamín, 1980-, authorWest, Adrian Nathan, translator
London : Pushkin Press, 2020.
189 pages ; 22 cm
9781782276128 (hbk)
863.7
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When we cease to understand the world
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