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Una serie de historias ficticias que relatan ciertos descubrimientos que tienen en común las mentes matemáticas que hay detrás de ellos. Algunas de las historias, como las de Hesinberg, Einstein y algo menos Schrödiger, me resultaban bastante familiares porque tanto Grayson como Rovelli habían hablado de ellas (en Italia). Otras las ignoraba por completo. Una forma agradable de tratar ciertos temas, que uno casi nunca encuentra en la literatura.
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Fantastic, through and through. I love the philosophical balance of science and speculation, of fact and fiction. Labatut starts with pure facts, and moves further and further into fiction, until the titular chapter in the book where the name, contribution to physics and rough biographical details are all that is true. He imagines the breakdowns and mind-altering states that it might have taken for these physicists and mathematicians to evolve their thought paradigms to something so clearly outs
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Oh my! Challenging the borders between fiction and nonfiction! Biographies of 20th century scientists (physicists and chemists), how their ideas emerged, their arguments and collaborations, some of the impacts of their discoveries. Such an interesting method of presenting a story.
Sep 11, 2020
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