館藏資訊
Einstein receives a letter from the trenches containing the first exact solution to the equations of generalized relativity. The brilliant mathematician Grothendieck cuts off all contact with the world, fearing the terrible consequences of his discovery... Blending fiction and historical fact, the stories of scientists who have expanded the realm of our understanding are meticulously portrayed. Haber, Swatch, Grothendieck, Heisenberg, and Scheidinger-five giants of science, all of whom possessed extraordinary gifts and struggled with the ultimate questions of existence; all of whom had been driven away from their loved ones and plunged into loneliness and madness. They have improved human life, but they have also paved the way for unimaginable suffering. The distance between good and evil has never been clear.