Apostolos Doxiadis

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“Logicomix” is an engaging, energetic work that makes big ideas accessible without dumbing them down.  The Washington Post “An absolute treat: perkily drawn, packed with wit and colour, and studded with charmingly scatty elucidations and scenes from the creation of the comic itself”  The Telegraph Wunderkammer Magazine “Innovative”  Standpoint Magazine “Amazing and rewarding”  The Miami Herald “A new graphic novel …continue reading…

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“Can mathematical statements be called ‘true’? This graphic novel won’t give you the answer, but makes for a compelling read.” BBC Focus Magazine The New Statesman Recommends Logicomix Ray Monk reviews Logicomix for The Spectator “Mathematics has never been so exciting.” Alex Bello’s review of Logicomix in The Guardian “Wonderfully imaginative, funny and gripping” San Francisco Chronicle review of Logicomix …continue reading…

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“This is probably the best and certainly the most extraordinary graphic novel I have ever come across.” “[Logicomix] manages to locate something in Russell’s story that perhaps only a graphic novel could: the unmistakable stylishness of his work, which was as thrilling as its substance.” “A surprising amount about Russell, logic, mathematics and philosophy has been conveyed in the most …continue reading…

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By Jim Holt, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Well, this is unexpected — a comic book about the quest for logical certainty in mathematics. The story spans the decades from the late 19th century to World War II, a period when the nature of mathematical truth was being furiously debated. The stellar cast, headed up by Bertrand Russell, includes the greatest philosophers, logicians and mathematicians of the era, along with sundry wives and mistresses, plus a couple of homicidal maniacs, an apocryphal barber and Adolf Hitler.


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By Neville Hawcock, FINANCIAL TIMES

Some superheroes leap tall buildings with a single bound. Others catch thieves just like flies. But the ones in Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou’s graphic novel just think – really hard – about an incredibly difficult dilemma. And they get nowhere. Like all the best superheroes, they are deeply, fascinatingly flawed characters.

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By Ray Olson, BOOKLIST

From the 1880s to the 1930s, mathematicians and logicians were hot to settle the foundations of mathematics. In the thick of the great quest was Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), who is at the center of mathematician-novelist Doxiadis and confreres’ dramatic graphic novel.

 

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