Benjamin Labatut
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut

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The MANIAC

Benjamin Labatut

From the author of When We Cease to Understand the World: a dazzling, kaleidoscopic book about the destructive chaos lurking in the history of computing and AI. Johnny von Neumann was an enigma. As a young man, he stunned those around him with his monomaniacal pursuit of the unshakeable foundations of mathematics. But when his faith in this all-encompassing system crumbled, he began to put his prodigious intellect to use for those in power. As he designed unfathomable computer systems and aided the development of the atomic bomb, his work pushed increasingly into areas that were beyond human comprehension and control - and that threatened human destruction. In The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut braids fact with fiction in a scintillating journey to the very fringes of rational thought, right to the point where it tips over into chaos. Stretching back to early twentieth-century conflict over contradictions in physics and up to advances in artificial intelligence that outpace the human, this is a mind-bending story of the mad dreams of reason. 'Absorbing ... perfect for anyone thirsting for more nuclear anxiety after watching Oppenheimer ... reads like the physicist Carlo Rovelli crossed with the cosmic horror of HP Lovecraft.' - Chris Power, Sunday Times.

368 pages

Media	Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg)
Utgitt	7. september 2023
ISBN13	9781805330677
Utgivere	Pushkin Press
Sjanger	Fiction
Antall sider	368
Mål	232 × 153 × 29 mm · 454 g
Språk	Engelsk
Originalspråk	Dansk