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9781782279815 - Benjamin Labatut: The Maniac
Benjamin Labatut

The Maniac

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From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI Johnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of mathematics. But when his faith in this all-encompassing system crumbled, he began to put his prodigious intellect to use for those in power. As he designed unfathomable computer systems and aided the development of the atomic bomb, his work pushed increasingly into areas that were beyond human comprehension and control - and that threatened human destruction. In The MANIAC, Benjamin Labatut braids fact with fiction in a scintillating journey to the very fringes of rational thought, right to the point where it tips over into chaos. Stretching back to early twentieth-century conflict over contradictions in physics and up to advances in artificial intelligence that outpace the human, this is a mind-bending story of the mad dreams of reason.
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9781782276142 - Benjamin Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin Labatut

When We Cease to Understand the World

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Sometimes discovery brings destruction When 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 discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.
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9786069785959 - Labatut, Benjamin: Cand nu mai intelegem lumea (eBook, ePUB)
Labatut, Benjamin

Cand nu mai intelegem lumea (eBook, ePUB) (2021)

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Volum nominalizat la International Booker Prize 2021 ¿i National Book Award 2021Când nu mai în¿elegem lumea este o meditäie asupra legaturilor complicate dintre descoperirile din lumea fizicii ¿i a matematicii ¿i tendin¿a umanitäii de a se autodistruge. Un melanj de investigäie biografica ¿i imaginäie ce aminte¿te în mod ¿ocant de stilul lui W.G. Sebald, cartea lui Labatut plonjeaza în viäa unor personalitäi reale, precum Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, ale caror descoperiri geniale fie au influen¿at definitiv viäa în bine, fie au dat nätere, fara inten¿ia autorilor, unor suferin¿e inimaginabile. Tema lui Labatut este nevoia umana imperioasa de a împinge limitele cunoäterii spre infinit, dar ¿i pericolul ce pânde¿te acolo."Un roman nonfic¿ional distopic a carui ac¿iune nu se petrece în viitor, ci în prezent." John Banville"Pe de-a-ntregul fascinanta ¿i revelatoare..." William Boyd"Pove¿tile din aceasta carte se nasc una din cealalta, contactul lor cu realitatea fiind imposibil de stabilit. Compacta ¿i puternica precum o capsula de cianura." The New Yorker"O meditäie asupra cunoäterii ¿i hybrisului care-¿i da fiori." The New York Times Book ReviewBenjamín Labatut s-a nascut în 1980 la Rotterdam ¿i a trait la Haga, Buenos Aires ¿i Lima. La 14 ani s-a mutat în Santiago de Chile, unde a studiat jurnalismul. A debutat în 2009 cu volumul de proza scurta La Antártica empieza aquí, care a câ¿tigat numeroase premii în Mexic ¿i în Chile. A continuat în 2016 cu volumul de eseuri biografice Después de la luz. Cea de-a treia lui carte, Când nu mai în¿elegem lumea, a fost publicata în 22 de ¿ari ¿i a fost inclusa de The New York Times Book Review pe lista celor mai bune 10 titluri publicate în 2021. Cea mai recenta carte a SA este La piedra de la locura.
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9786069785959 - Benjamin Labatut: Cand nu mai intelegem lumea
Benjamin Labatut

Cand nu mai intelegem lumea

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9781782279815 - Benjamin Labatut: The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut

The MANIAC

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9780593654484 - Benjamin Labatut: The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut

The MANIAC

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Labatut, Benjamin

The MANIAC

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