Benjamin Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World [2020] hardback ZBOOK Millicent Fawcett

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Benjamin Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World [2020] hardback ZBOOK Millicent FawcettWhen We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their