I received this short book as a gift. It is very gripping and melodramatic as the great scientists from the turn of the 20th century struggle with big ideas and the societal (and personal) consequences of their discoveries. However the fictional parts of the stories -- gothic horror and insanity stuff -- are silly and bad. A much better and similar book is Jim Holt's When Einstein walked with Gödel because Holt's book is historically accurate. 3/5 Stars.
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