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Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 - A National Bestseller - A New York Times Editor's Choice pick - Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thrilling originality. The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty." --The Washington Post "Darkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting." --Wall Street Journal From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI Benjam n Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake. The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control. A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species.

Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 - A National Bestseller - A New York Times Editor's Choice pick - Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction "Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray . . . Labatut is a writer of thrilling originality. The MANIAC is a work of dark, eerie and singular beauty." --The Washington Post "Darkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting." --Wall Street Journal From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AI Benjam n Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake. The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces; it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control. A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species.

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2021Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schr dinger--these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjam n Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

V nauchno-populjarnykh knigakh obychno vospevajutsja chudesnye dostizhenija nauki v oblasti prikladnoj matematiki, teoreticheskoj fiziki, khimii, osvoenija kosmosa i shire, nauchnogo poznanija mira. Benkhamin Labatut vybiraet sovsem drugoj ugol zrenija. Ego novatorskoe "khudozhestvennoe proizvedenie, osnovannoe na realnykh sobytijakh" (khotja luchshe bylo by nazvat etot tekst non-fikshen romanom, poskolku bolshinstvo personazhej, sredi kotorykh Frits Gaber, Nils Bor, Verner Gejzenberg, Aleksandr Grotendik, Ervin Shrjodinger i dr., - istoricheskie lichnosti, a znachitelnaja chast povestvovanija baziruetsja na istoricheskikh faktakh) skoree vospevaet chuvstvo trevogi, soputstvujuschee velikim nauchnym otkrytijam, i obraschaetsja k temnoj storone ratsionalnosti. Roman, perevedennyj na dvadtsat dva jazyka, voshel v short-list mezhdunarodnogo Bukera v 2021 godu i stal zametnym literaturnym sobytiem.

V svoej novoj knige chilijskij pisatel Benkhamin Labatut prodolzhaet razvivat idei proslavivshego ego romana "Kogda my perestali ponimat mir" - bestsellera o mrachnykh aspektakh velikikh dostizhenij nauki, - vnov obraschajas k simbiozu non-fikshena i khudozhestvennoj prozy.Tsentralnoe mesto avtor otvodit biografii matematika-vunderkinda Dzhona fon Nejmana, uchastnika Mankhettenskogo proekta i sozdatelja arkhitektury vychislitelnykh mashin, na osnove kotoroj byl postroen odin iz pervykh kompjuterov - MANIAC.Istorija fon Nejmana predvarjaetsja rasskazom o tragicheskoj sudbe Paulja Erenfesta, a poslednie glavy posvjascheny sudbonosnomu turniru po igre go mezhdu Li Sedolem i programmoj AlphaGo. Chereda protivorechivykh sobytij iz mira nauki - ot sozdanija vodorodnoj bomby do rozhdenija superkompjuterov, - vyzyvajuschikh vostorg u odnikh i vseljajuschikh uzhas v drugikh, zavershaetsja oshelomitelnoj pobedoj iskusstvennogo intellekta nad chelovekom, zastavljaja chitatelej zadumatsja o tom, kuda nas priveli i privedut tekhnologii.Perevodchik: Kazankova Polina

Prigolomshliva istorija khimernogo erudita Dzhona fon Nejmana: kriz vpliv jogo vinjatkovoji spadschini na mriji ta koshmari KHKh stolittja do zarodzhennja shtuchnogo intelektu.Dzhon fon Nejman - vunderkind, chiji zdibnosti ljakali otochennja. Vin zminjuvav use, do chogo torkavsja: vinajshov teoriju igor i pershij programovanij komp'juter, stav pershovidkrivachem shtuchnogo intelektu, tsifrovogo zhittja i mobilnikh telefoniv-avtomativ. Vid svidchen Paulja Erenfesta - avstrijskogo fizika i druga Ejnshtejna, jakij vpav u vidchaj, pobachivshi, jak nauka i tekhnologiji stajut zasobami tiraniji, do protistojannja mizh pivdennokorejskim majstrom gri v go Li Sedolom i programoju shtuchnogo intelektu AlphaGo, scho vtiljuje tsentralne pitannja najambitnishogo nezavershenogo projektu fon Nejmana: stvorennja mashini, scho samovidtvorjujetsja - intelektu, zdatnogo evoljutsionuvati za mezhami ljudskogo rozuminnja i kontrolju. Kriz prizmu rozpovidej chleniv sim'ji, druziv, koleg i supernikiv Benkhamin Labatut rozkrivaje istoriju neperevershenoji i vodnochas khimernoji ljudini, jakij vdalos zrushiti z mertvoji tochki tsilij svit.PerekladachJulija Kostjuk

La aventura de la ciencia convertida en literatura. Un libro inclasificable y poderosamente seductor. Las narraciones incluidas en este libro singular y fascinante tienen un hilo conductor que las entrelaza: la ciencia, con sus búsquedas, tentativas, experimentos e hipótesis, y los cambios que –para bien y para mal– introduce en el mundo y en nuestra visión de él. Por estas páginas des?lan descubrimientos reales que forman una larga cadena perturbadora: el primer pigmento sintético moderno, el azul de Prusia, creado en el siglo XVIII gracias a un alquimista que buscaba el Elixir de la Vida mediante crueles experimentos con animales vivos, se convierte en el origen del cianuro de hidrógeno, gas mortal que el químico judío alemán Fritz Haber, padre de la guerra química, empleó para elaborar el pesticida Zyklon, sin saber que los nazis acabarían utilizándolo en los campos de exterminio para asesinar a miembros de su propia familia. También asistimos a las exploraciones matemáticas de Alexander Grothendieck, que le llevaron al delirio místico, el aislamiento social y la locura; a la carta enviada a Einstein por un amigo moribundo desde las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, con la solución de las ecuaciones de la relatividad y el primer augurio de los agujeros negros; y a la lucha entre los dos fundadores de la mecánica cuántica –Erwin Schrödinger y Werner Heisenberg– que generó el principio de incertidumbre y la famosa respuesta que Einstein le gritó a Niels Bohr: «¡Dios no juega a los dados con el universo!» La literatura explora la ciencia, la ciencia se convierte en literatura. Benjamín Labatut ha escrito un libro inclasi?cable y poderosamente seductor, que habla de descubrimientos fruto del azar, teorías que bordean la locura, búsquedas alquímicas del conocimiento y la exploración de los límites de lo desconocido. «Labatut penetra el corazón de una realidad que pocos han visto antes que él, y que nadie ha descrito de esta manera. Un libro de terrorí?ca belleza» (Wolfram Eilenberger, autor de Tiempo de magos). «El prodigio de los escritos de Benjamín Labatut radica en su capacidad de acceder a dominios de enorme complejidad sin renunciar al rigor, al mismo tiempo en que convierte a estos cientí?cos en personajes de carne y hueso, figuras literarias puras que probablemente sean más verdaderas cuanto más parecen inventadas» (José Mário Silva, Expresso, Portugal).

Fra en af samtidslitteraturens mest interessante stemmer, forfatteren bag den anmelderroste bestseller Når vi ikke længere forstår verden, kommer en tour de force gennem den kunstige intelligens' veje og vildveje. Han er et enestående talent, matematikeren John von Neumann – banebrydende inden for kunstig intelligens og medskaber på Manhattan-projektet. Neumann er beundret og berygtet, en excentriker uden sidestykke, som har dannet blåtrykket til nogle af det 20. århundredes største videnskabelige gennembrud. Gennem et kor af Neumanns familie, venner, kolleger og rivaler tegner Benjamín Labatut et portræt af et kompliceret sind. Historien begynder i Neumanns barndomshjem i Budapest og slutter hundrede år senere i opgøret mellem Lee Sedol, den sydkoreanske mester i spillet Go, og AI-programmet AlphaGo. Et møde, som varsler AI's dominans og som legemliggør Neumanns mest ambitiøse, ufuldendte projekt: skabelsen af en maskine, der kan reproducere sig selv. En maskine, hvis intelligens kan udvikle sig langt ud over menneskets forstand og kontrol. MANIAC er en forbløffende forening af fakta og fiktion, en udfordring af vores forståelse af intelligens og bevidsthed og en undersøgelse af det paradoksale forhold mellem kontrol og kontroltab.

Når vi ikke længere forstår verden er en roman om banebrydende videnskabelige opdagelsers skønhed og destruktivitet, om hvordan enkelte mennesker beskriver det uforståelige uden selv helt at forstå, og store intellekters bevægelser i gråzonen mellem skabelse og død.Albert Einstein modtager et brev fra Østfronten. På bagsiden af kuverten finder han det endelige bevis for den generelle relativitetsteori – men også et varsel om dens apokalyptiske konsekvenser. Fritz Haber opfinder sennepsgassen og dræber dermed en hel generation i skyttegravene under første verdenskrig, men et halvt år eft er modtager han Nobelprisen for sine kvælstofopdagelser, der har kapacitet til at afslutte hungersnød verden over.Van Goghs genialitet, Hermann Görings sidste timer, silkesommerfuglen, gift - gassen Zyklon B der dræbte millioner af internerede under anden verdenskrig, og helt almindelig gødning. Alle væves de sammen i Benjamín Labatuts roman om nogle af det tyvende århundredes største opdagelser, og hvordan de er forbundet.Når vi ikke længere forstår verden er en enestående bog om videnskabens kvantespring og disses konsekvenser. Romanen bygger på historiske fakta og virkelige personer og undersøger genialitet og besættelse balanceret på en knivsæg mellem det muliges og umuliges kunst.