TY  - BOOK
AU  - Labatut,Benjamín
AU  - West, Adrian Nathan.
TI  - When we cease to understand the world
SN  - 9781782276142
U1  - 863.7  23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - The night gardener
KW  - Prussian blue
KW  - The heart of the heart
N1  - Prussian blue, Schwarzschild's singularity, The heart of the heart, When we cease to understand the world, The night gardener

N2  - "A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life to the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible" -- Publisher's description
ER  -