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:- 4.0 out of 5 stars from marisa l. -- Very entertaining : This is meant to be thought provoking and it explains concepts of math science and physics in terms of the challenges faced by the people who ended up being the most famous ones to explain them. After some brutal depictions of the very dark side of humans and what they have done with chemistry the book moves along into an engrossing narrative. Since the language these people were most fluent in was math and they worked on a mathematical level far above the understanding of most people then this book has to rely on a fictional narrative that depicts the dilemma of having to introduce new ideas that threaten established dogma and the staus quo of academia. It’s extremely entertaining to read. If you are one of those people who would like to believe that everyone who is absorbed by math and science somehow rises above the whole messy spectrum of human experience then you won’t like this book and you can go gargle with listerine and sharpen your pencils now for a cleansing moment. But if you want a succinct but fun explanation of the most fundamental concepts of quantum theory and how even the ones who first realized what they were on to had a rough time with it then you might enjoy this book. ( Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2020 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Randall M. -- Fascinating and disturbing : Benjamin Labatut’s stories are fascinating, entertaining, and well written, but ultimately disturbing. What will we do with the products of seemingly unearthly intellects like Alexander Grothendieck. Our record is not very encouraging. ( Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2021 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Mike -- This book is perfect : After finishing Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, I felt like an addict who had found a glorious new drug, consumed all of it as quickly as possible, and began to frantically search about for more. This book is perfect all the way until you're finished reading it. ( Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2020 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Ogel -- An intelligent and poetic book with the occasional deadpan stunner : Whether or not your interest in science (it helps), this is a treat to read: the author takes you through the circumstances of some of the most important discoveries – mostly in the 20th century and esp. in physics – by recounting (often imaginatively) the lives and circumstances of those making them. The author weaves in two consistent considerations: how triumphs of science are often accompanied by the horrible uses they are put too; and how some of the heroes in this narrative - like Werner von Heisenberg (the inventor of quantum mechanics) – felt that their discoveries was taking them dark places (or holes) they'd much rather not go. There's an air of mysticism and religiosity breathing through this (ever so softly), which adds the final touch. This may well be the most intelligent book I've read so far in 2021. ( Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2021 )
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- 1.0 out of 5 stars from James E. Clark III -- Very Disappointed : Maybe because I am not a mathematician, or maybe because I got turned off about the grotesque poisoning that was described, I never understood the meaning of the author. For those interested in the lives of genius mathematicians, the book is for them. But for me, I want to know why we as humans have suddenly become disrespectful, vicious, and authoritarian. ( Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2021 )
- 3.0 out of 5 stars from P. G. Harris -- James Burke meets Mary Shelley : In the 1970s science broadcasterJames Burke wrote and presented a TV series called Connections in which he sought to identify linked chains of technological and scientific development across history. In When we Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut starts with the same concept but then adds a veneer of fiction which borrows greatly from the gothic imagination of Mary Shelley. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2020 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Gumble's Yard -- A complex book which is simply outstanding : This book was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, one of two books by Pushkin Press – who publish “the world’s best stories, to be read and read again.” ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 6, 2021 )
- 2.0 out of 5 stars from JCT -- Fictional biography- where does fact stop and fiction start??? : I find historical fiction difficult as I am always wondering what is true and what is made up. This work is even more challenging. The first mini biography is apparently mostly based on fact but as the book progresses fiction takes over as regards the lives of the scientists which makes me doubt the veracity of the simply described science too. The lives are described in very over-wrought language and far too dramatic for me. The Booker judges liked it because it apparently challenged what fiction is- but it does not challenge fiction for me, it just challenges the definitions of biography and fiction. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2021 )
- 4.0 out of 5 stars from Kid Ferrous -- A powerful book about the dangers of wanting to know everything : This is a Booker International Prize shortlisted collection of, to varying degrees, semi-fictionalised stories about scientists who were prepared to go as far as necessary to understand reality. And sometimes too far. It’s not so much a novel, more a kind of “true fiction”. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2021 )
- 5.0 out of 5 stars from Ransen Owen -- An amazing page turner : I knew a few of these stories from recent scientific history, but they are so well told here that I did not mind re-reading them. And the translation is amazing. Sometimes you can tell a book has been translated, but this seems as if written originally in native English. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2020 )
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