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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West

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4.25

Benjamin Labatut is devastatingly clever with his blend of fiction and fact.  Describing the tortured lives of mathematicians and physicians from Schwarzschild and Mochizuki to de Broglie and Schrödinger, he uses fiction to round out the details of their biographies and imagine in what conditions such minds attempted to comprehend the rules of reality. I can’t pretend to have understood all, if any, of the mathematical ideas in question, but Labatut makes the overarching excitement and fear around the limits and new depths of physics viscerally tangible. Would recommend for lovers of maths, science, and literature alike. 
As Mark Haddon has said of the work, “it feels as if he has invented an entirely new genre.” Labatut uses the blend of imagination and reality to truly make us confront and question what happens When We Cease to Understand the World. 

'Blurb': A work of fiction and biography following the lives of mathematicians and scientists as they grapple with new theories and discoveries and their sometimes incomprehensible consequences.
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