The Glass Bead Game
In a future order devoted to a game synthesising all knowledge, one master begins to doubt the whole enterprise.
In a future province devoted to Castalia and its Glass Bead Game, a discipline synthesising music, mathematics and all other knowledge, Joseph Knecht rises to be its master and then begins to doubt whether such a life can be justified. Hesse published it in 1943 and it was cited in his Nobel Prize three years later.
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Marcus du Sautoy
Now, Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game is a novel but there’s a lot of – not exactly maths – but a lot of pattern in there.
Interview · September 2014
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