When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut, Un Verdor Terrible
Translated from Spanish by Adrian Nathan West
Pushkin Press, 2020
Fiction around fascinations for a few geniouses.
Prussian Blue
Poison of the Third Reich: cyanide and Zyklon B.
Colour in European art.
Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Fritz Haber: war gas and nitrogen fertilizers.
Schwarzschild's Singularity
1915: The first solution to Einstein's general relativity equation,
and the invention of black holes.
The Heart of the Heart
Shinichi Mochizuki and the proof of the
a + b = c conjecture
(aka Oesterlé–Masser, or Szpiro).
Alexander Grothendieck
When We Cease to Understand the World
Erwin Schrödinger,
Werner Heisenberg,
and Louis de Broglie.
The Night Gardener
A Chilian mathematician turned gardener.
Newyorker,
Community Bookstore Live
History