Apostolos Doxiadis

Reviews

Written by Matt Cardwell, WUNDERKAMMER Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:56 When initially approached to write a review of the US edition of Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou’s graphic novel, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, I felt admittedly out of my league. My experience in the graphic novel genre, to this point, has included little more than recreational enjoyment of …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Tim Martin, THE TELEGRAPH Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:57 Tim Martin reviews a batch of comics, including Neil Gaiman’s Batman and The Book of Genesis as seen by Robert Crumb. LOGICOMIX Already a bestseller on the Continent, this 350-page comic about the search for a logical foundation to mathematics dramatises episodes from the life of Bertrand Russell, with …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Dan Kois, THE WASHINGTON POST Sunday, 15 November 2009 00:00 Though it may serve as a primer on early 20th-century philosophy and mathematics, “Logicomix” is no textbook — it’s a comic book. “The form is perfect for stories of heroes in search of great goals!” exclaims one co-author to the other. In this case, the superhero is the …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Mike Holderness, NEW SCIENTIST Wednesday, 02 December 2009 00:00 IN THIS graphic-novel biography of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, the book’s artists draw themselves and their debates with the authors about how, say, to illustrate the concept “proof”.Such self-reference is at the heart of the story, from Russell’s despair at the paradox that halted his effort to put …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Laura Miller, Salon.com Sunday, 13 December 2009 00:00 A new comic romps through one of philosophy’s greatest debates Of the most celebrated graphic novels recently published, R. Crumb’s illustrated version of the Book of Genesis is atypically serious and David Mazzucchelli’s “Asterios Polyp” is the most artistically sophisticated, but “Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth,” by Apostolos Doxiadis …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Robert Bruton, FORBIDDEN PLANET Friday, 25 December 2009 22:43 “What Is Logic? ….. My way of telling you the story of Logic will be through the tale of one of it’s most ardent fans. Myself!” – Betrand Russell from the pages of Logicomix. Here’s a comic you wouldn’t have seen a few years ago – a detailed study …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Carlo Wolff, THE BOSTON GLOBE Sunday, 03 January 2010 15:04 In examining the life of philosopher-mathematician Bertrand Russell, “Logicomix’’serves up Set Theory, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s questioning of “objective existence’’ and the work of mathematicians spanning Gottfried Leibniz and Alfred North Whitehead. Heady stuff, especially for the math-challenged. But the authors of this warm homage achieve the miraculous: popularizing the …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by Steven Lukes, PRINT MAG Thursday, 07 January 2010 15:55 This is not, one of its authors, Apostolos Doxiadis, tells us, Logic for Dummies or a “textbook or treatise in the unlikely guise of a graphic novel.” It is a story—the story of “a man who hoped to find a way of getting absolutely right answers.” The man in …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews


Written by R.C. Harvey, THE COMICS JOURNAL Friday, 22 January 2010 11:18 Being on a list of the 10 best-selling comics doesn’t invariably proclaim the quality of the product — usually, alas, it doesn’t. So when I saw Logicomix ranking fifth on the Publishers Weekly list in early December, I was not just surprised: I was astounded. And my astonishment …continue reading…

Logicomix, Reviews