Benjamín Labatut
1) The maniac
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A novel centered on Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, a prodigy whose gifts terrified those around him, shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake, confronting us with the deepest questions we face as a species.
Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"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...