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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2021005102 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Cancelled/invalid ISBN |
9781782276128 (hardback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
spa |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
863.7 LAB |
| Edition number |
23 |
| Item number |
016515 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Labatut, Benjamín, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1980- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Verdor terrible.">Verdor terrible.</a> |
| Language of a work |
English |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
When we cease to understand the world / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Benjamin Labatut ; translated by Adrian Nathan West. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Pushkin Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2020. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
189 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - Content type term (R) |
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| Content type term (R) |
text |
| Content type code (R) |
txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) |
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computer |
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c |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) |
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| Carrier type term (R) |
online resource |
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cr |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"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 Schrodinger: these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Labatut's book 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 to 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, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible"-- |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Labatut, Benjamín, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1980- |
| Form subdivision |
Translations into English. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Scientists |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Discoveries in science |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Creative ability in science |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
West, Adrian Nathan, |
| Relator term |
translator. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Display text |
Print version: |
| Main entry heading |
Labatut, Benjamín, 1980- |
| Title |
When we cease to understand the world |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : New York Review Books, [2021] |
| International Standard Book Number |
9781681375663 |
| Record control number |
(DLC) 2021005101 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book |
