Jean-Claude Carri re is a writer, playwright and screenwriter. He is notably the co-author of Conversations About the End of Time (with Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, etc.). He recently collaborated with Michael Haneke on his award-winning film The White Ribbon and he has worked with many of the twentieth century's great directors including Peter Brook, Milos Forman, Luis Bunuel and Jean-Luc Godard.
A thought-provoking introduction to Einstein and quantum theory -- John Williams * Mail on Sunday * Carrière's humane sensibility makes him the ideal man to humanise Einstein -- Peter Forbes * Independent * Since the 1960s, Carrière has had his finger on the pulse of Europe's imagination...In Carrière's story...undecidability and doubt have leached out of science and into ethics -- Lisa Jardine * The Times * [A] coruscating, yet gently whimsical, tour ...Carriére...has an impeccable pedigree in science publishing...There are some sharp incidental pleasures and some witty reflections to be enjoyed -- Victoria Neumark * Times Educational Supplement *