{"product_id":"a-disappearing-number-by-simon-mcburney-theatre-complicite-9781840028300","title":"A Disappearing Number","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Disappearing Number\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its starting point the story of one of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time. Simultaneously a narrative and an enquiry, the production crosses three continents and several histories, to weave a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician G.H. Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThreaded through this pattern of stories and ideas are questions. About mathematics and beauty; imagination and the nature of infinity; about what is continuous and what is permanent; how we are attached to the past and how we affect the future; how we create and how we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book features an essay by Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford, and an introduction by Simon McBurney. The Complicité production was an astonishing success during its run at the Barbican, London in Spring 2007, winning The Evening Standard’s Best New Play Award 2007. Called \u003cem\u003eMesmerizing\u003c\/em\u003e by the New York Times, \u003ci\u003eA Disappearing Number\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant play, aided with original music composed by the award-winning DJ, producer, and writer Nitin Sawhney.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Disappearing Number\u003c\/i\u003e was revived at the Novello Theatre, London in autumn 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47423698305260,"sku":"9781840028300","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71KyLLUDcML._SL1500.jpg?v=1774428574","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/a-disappearing-number-by-simon-mcburney-theatre-complicite-9781840028300","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}