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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.
Main title:
When we cease to understand the world / Benjamín Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2020.
Collation:
189 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781782276128 (hbk)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
Related title:
When we cease to understand the world
BRN:
550024
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