2091597The MANIAChttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-maniac/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/416314/3c881ada-9c03-4f6d-9836-9c894783346d.jpg?v=638627476852400000251349MXNPenguin Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly One of Barack Obamas Favorite Books of 2023 A National Bestseller A New York Times Editors Choice pick Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionCaptivating 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 PostDarkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting. Wall Street JournalFrom one of contemporary literatures 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 AIBenjamín Labatuts 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 Neumanns 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....2047757The MANIAC251349https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-maniac/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/416314/3c881ada-9c03-4f6d-9836-9c894783346d.jpg?v=638627476852400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780593654484_W3siaWQiOiIyNTgyNGEwMi00MWIxLTQwNGQtOThlOC0xOWU4M2VjMDllODUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjMwNCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjcwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIzNCwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDQ6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780593654484_From one of literatures most exciting new voices, a story centered around one of the great geniuses of the modern age, the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the uncanny circuit of his mind deep into our own times most haunting dilemmas.Benjamín Labatuts 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 modern science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a masterpiece on an even more epic scale, with the protean figure of John von Neumann in its foreground. A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people that surrounded him from his early school days until the end of his life, von Neumann transformed every field he touched, essentially inventing the game theory, the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. He was a paradoxical character, at times childish and amoral, at times wise and astonishingly far-seeing. The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych bookended by a suicidal Austrian physicist, Paul Ehrenfest, and the matchup between a Korean Go master and an artificial intelligence system, both artfully connected to the main section, which presents the astounding life and ideas of von Neumann through a chorus of family members and friends, as well as gifted scientists, such as Richard Feynman, Theodore von Karman, and Eugene Wigner, who outline the evolution of a mind beyond any we have known, and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake. The MANIAC begins in Europe, in the 1930s, with the story of a brilliant and tortured Austrian physicist, Paul Ehrenfest, one of Einsteins closest friends, who fell into despair when he looked at the darkness slowly enveloping the world as mathematics invaded physics and science and technology became tyrannical forces; it ends almost a hundred years later, as we witness the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter that showcases the limits of human and non-human creativity and embodies the central question of von Neumanns most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence that could evolve beyond our understanding or control. A work of staggering beauty and momentum, The MANIAC brings us, head and heart, into contact with the deepest questions we face as a species....(*_*)9780593654484_Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly One of Barack Obamas Favorite Books of 2023 A National Bestseller A New York Times Editors Choice pick Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionCaptivating 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 PostDarkly absorbing . . . A brooding, heady narrative that is addictively interesting. Wall Street JournalFrom one of contemporary literatures 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 AIBenjamín Labatuts 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 Neumanns 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....9780593654484_Penguin Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_c4a5036b-0d4c-3e10-b294-c2bcb9a9a046_9780593654484;9780593654484_9780593654484Benjamin LabatutInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/PenguinUS-epub-adc83fbf-b720-479a-83e5-cb142809e172.epub2023-10-03T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Publishing Group