{"product_id":"the-phantom-scientist-9780262047869","title":"The Phantom Scientist","description":"\u003cb\u003eA mind-bending graphic novel that teases devious thrills from the mysteries of systems theory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn isolated institute laid out in a Fibonacci sequence, hidden deep in the forest. Twenty-four labs. Twenty-four researchers. Until one of them disappears . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen physicist Stéphane Douasy arrives to occupy the vacant twenty-fourth lab at the Institute for the Study of Complex and Dynamic Systems, an ominous problem rises in his wake: what has happened to his missing neighbor in Building F? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Stéphane's neighbors, a discouraged linguist and a computer scientist bent on predicting the future, discover that the missing researcher may have solved the P versus NP problem--a coup in computer science with revolutionary implications for everything from mathematics to philosophy--before vanishing, things turn stranger still, and even more menacing. Solving the mystery of the Institute and its devolution into mayhem and violence every seventh year quickly shifts from being an intellectual exercise to a matter of life and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e is part thriller, part mystery, part systems theory--and all enthralling. The tale slyly draws together linguistics, biology, astrophysics, and robotics in a mind-bending puzzle that will thrill and inform readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Cousin is cofounder of Éditions Les Machines and co-organizer of FOFF, an annual festival of independent micropresses at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. His art and storytelling in \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e are informed by the work done at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50620917842194,"sku":"9780262047869","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5fb3b108-cabc-4ca9-8950-f9cc5da92b84.jpg?v=1732575175","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-phantom-scientist-9780262047869","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}