Benjamín Labatut The maniac

John von Neumann (1903-1957) verbijstert zijn omgeving met zijn monomane zoektocht naar de grondslagen van de wiskunde. Nadat zijn geloof in dit systeem begint af te brokkelen, zet hij zijn intellect in voor de machtshebbers.

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Engels | 354 pagina's | Pushkin Press, London | 2023

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Michael D. Bess Planet in peril

humanity's four greatest challenges and how we can overcome them

"Everything was finally in place. The scientists stood in their observation bunker in the Alamogordo desert, staring through the lenses of their protective glasses at the tower five miles away where the world's first atomic device awaited an electric pulse for detonation. It was 5:29 a.m. on July 19, 1945. The previous evening, one of the smartest persons in the world had decided it was time to lighten things up a bit. Enrico Fermi glanced round at his fellow scientists and said, in his heavy Italian...

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Engels | 440 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2023

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