Goebius' Strange Model

Jacques Bergur

• 04 december 2016
• 1230001454284

Samenvatting:

A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip?

Fascinating concepts such as chaos, entropy, isomorphisms, emergence, and strange loops invite themselves discreetly, although in a determinant way, into the fictional landscape and the plot.
This is a scientific thriller, accessible to everyone, without mathematics, and also a novel which will make the reader feel like deepening the exciting concepts shaping this story.

The almost miraculous relationship between mathematics and our physical universe shapes almost all of our daily gestures. Trying to explain this miracle by means of a novel, a thriller intended for everyone and without mathematical or physical formulas, could have been a "crazy bet".
Still, the mathematicians Cédric Villani and Etienne Ghys wrote about this book:

"This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing...” Cedric Villani, Fields Medal 2010.

"This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Étienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.

Such comments, coming from personalities of such stature, make the author believe not only in their caring simplicity, but also that the “crazy bet” was not lost.

About the author:

A graduate in physics from the “École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne”, Jacques Bergur first served as an engineer, then moved into the top management of a multinational high tech company.