02207cam a2200301 4500 515703655 TxAuBib 20211214120000.0 210204s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021005101 9781681375663 PAP 17.95 1681375664 PAP 17.95 TxAuBib eng spa Labatut, Benjamin. Verdor terrible English. When we cease to understand the world [BOOK] / Benjamain Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West. New York : New York Review Books, [2021] 189 pages ; 22 cm. Includes bibliographical references (page 189). Prussian blue -- Schwarzschild's singularity -- The heart of the heart -- When we cease to understand the world -- The night gardener. "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"-- Provided by publisher. 20220517. Labatut, Benjamain 1980- Translations into English. Scientists Fiction. Short stories. West, Adrian Nathan, translator.