01702cam a2200337 i 4500 552908012 TxAuBib 20220401120000.0 210512s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781782276142 1782276149 (OCoLC)1228885071 TxAuBib rda eng spa Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- Verdor terrible English. When We Cease To Understand The World / Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian Nathan West. London : Pushkin Press, 2021. 189 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Translated from the Spanish. 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. 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. "-- adapted from publisher. 20220401. Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- Translations into English. Scientists Fiction. Short stories. West, Adrian Nathan,.