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Published by Anagrama · Mathematics and science · ISBN 9788433998972

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A book of narratives linked by science and by the changes, good and bad, its discoveries bring to the world. It chains together real episodes: from Prussian blue, the first modern synthetic pigment, to cyanide and the work of the chemist Fritz Haber; the mathematics of Alexander Grothendieck; the letter a dying friend sent Einstein from the trenches of the First World War; and the clash between Schrödinger and Heisenberg at the birth of quantum mechanics.

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For readers drawn to the history of science told as literature, in hard-to-classify territory between story and essay.

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