LOS ANGELES – Wednesday, October 7, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Public Library – Christos in conversation with Zlatan Damnjanovic
LOS ANGELES – Wednesday, October 7, 7:00 pm
Los Angeles Public Library – Christos in conversation with Zlatan Damnjanovic
“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…
Jim Holt reviewed Logicomix for the New York Times. Read the review here.
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.
Catch up on the latest coverage of Logicomix. We have four new rave reviews. Neville Hawcock, FINANCIAL TIMES – Sept. 5 David Cowan, SKEPTIC – Sept. 9 Alexandra Honigsberg, COMICMIX – Sept. 11 JV Chamary, BBC FOCUS – Sept. 18
By Alexandra Honigsberg, COMICMIX
Despite the modern framing at the end of this book arguing about whether or not this was a tragedy or a happy ending by bringing computers into the whole thing to support the side of happy, which puts a pimple onto something that is quite near-perfection otherwise, I will say that this is, in the imperfect vernacular, freakin’ awesome.
By David Cowan, THE SKEPTIC
In this week’s eSkeptic, David Cowan reviews Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, a graphic novel about the life and ideas of philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou.
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.
“A far-reaching yet realistic portrayal of the precarious search for truth” – Kirkus Reviews