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"Apostolos Doxiadis' charming dialogue and Alecos Papadatos' simple, affecting drawings give the story an immediacy and approachability that nothing else could." - TIME |
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"Reading Logicomix is like stumbling upon the best college class you never expected and settling down for enlightenment." - Boston Globe |
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"A far-reaching yet realistic portrayal of the precarious search for truth" - Kirkus Reviews |
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"An extraordinary piece of work" - Independent |
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"A rich yarn... Wonderfully persuasive!" - Financial Times |
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"Graphic-novel masterpiece" -Booklist (starred review) |
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"What a comic book!" - Calvin Reid, senior news editor, Publisher's Weekly, and co-editor, PW Comics Week |
LOGICOMIX won the 2010 Bertrand Russell Society Book Award!
2010 is a particularly special year for Russell fans, as it marks the 100th anniversary of the Principia Mathematica.
Apostolos was one of six writers to take part in the first ever 24 Hour Plays event in Athens, on March 23rd. A clip from Apostolos' play, entitled "The Boabdil Syndrome" ("Το Σύνδρομο Μποαμπντίλ") is available at the 24 Hour Plays Athens official website.
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Apostolos Doxiadis is a writer whose best-selling novel, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, brought mathematics into fiction. His latest work, Logicomix, a collaboration with Christos H. Papadimitriou, is a graphic novel of the epic quest for certainty in science and logic.