"He has to convey biographical details about von Neumann to readers who have never heard of him, introduce complex concepts from a range of scientific fields, and simultaneously weave all this information into a moody allegory about knowledge and transgression.This means the literary spell is often broken by sentences that sound like they could have come from a textbook (“In 1901, Bertrand Russe..."
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