When We Cease to Understand the World

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Published Sept. 3, 2017 by Pushkin Press.

ISBN:
978-1-78227-613-5
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2 stars

Interesting tale of the stories behind recent breakthroughs in modern mathematics and physics, placing them in their social and historical context. Stories became increasingly bizarre, with a touch of the magical realism that many Latinoamerican authors love - and that, I must confess, I despise.

Also an intro to quantum mechanics (the most I can take and/or understand lol). Thus some nice food for thought over the classic question of: does the universe behave following certain physical and mathematical patterns or are we creating them in order to make sense of reality?

TL;DR: as we say in Spanish, sin más.

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