Benjamin Labatut, <i>The MANIAC</i> New York: Penguin, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7. $28.00 (hardcover).

1998 surrealist film Pi tells the story of Max, a tortured mathematician driven to madness by his belief that mathematics can offer certain order to the world.The low-budget film that became an unlikely box office success depicts the holy trinity of popular narratives of mathematicians: reclusive genius, madness and religion.Benjamin Labatut's fictionalized biography of John von Neumann is a newcomer to this well-trodden road.Two suicides open the novel

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The British Journal for the History of Science
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2024-11-08
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000827
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Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
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Benjamin Labatut, The MANIAC New York: Penguin, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7. $28.00 (hardcover).

Alma Steingart
The British Journal for the History of Science
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
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Benjamin Labatut, The MANIAC New York: Penguin, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7. $28.00 (hardcover).

Alma Steingart
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1998 surrealist film Pi tells the story of Max, a tortured mathematician driven to madness by his belief that mathematics can offer certain order to the world.The low-budget film that became an unlikely box office success depicts the holy trinity of popular narratives of mathematicians: reclusive genius, madness and religion.Benjamin Labatut's fictionalized biography of John von Neumann is a newcomer to this well-trodden road.Two suicides open the novel

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Benjamin Labatut, <i>The MANIAC</i> New York: Penguin, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-0-593-65447-7. $28.00 (hardcover). — Alma Steingart · The British Journal for the History of Science (2024) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS