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Jan 03, Yasiru reviews will soon be removed and linked to blog rated it really liked it Shelves: The drawings are pleasing to the eye and the style is pretty similar to Herge's but with milder tones. Since , she has been running an animation studio with her husband, Alecos Papadatos. The creators appear as characters in present-day Athens, debating how to go about their task; then, in the next layer, there is Russell at the outbreak of the Second World War, giving a lecture in which he describes his quest to establish firm foundations for mathematics and eventually knowledge using a new, formalized and symbol-based kind of logic; and it is this quest that forms the inner, central story. Bertrand's big character flaw is that he becomes so committed to a particular map of the territory of real life that he forgets to look at the territory at all, causing him to ruin his family in the name of ideals that he is stubbornly committed to.

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Apostolos DoxiadisChristos H. Without the bits with the creators, I would have given this book 5 stars and it would gladly ,ogicomix it to my friends, but with them, this aspiring work reads like it was created for 13 year-olds. Oh, and also, a logician. Retrieved 7 August From a troubled and lonely childhood, he takes great comfort in the stable power of rationality after he discovers it from a math tutor.

Cover to the English-language edition from Bloomsbury.

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou - Google Books

Really amazing work throughout. What is important is that we are here, now, and we need to make sense of our own lives. I used to own this book but I lent my copy to my ex. I think the bits with the creators are good to give the larger work some context, but that is all. searcb

The scenes of Wittgenstein in WW1 were extraordinary as the reader was invited to see Wittgenstein's breakthrough in his work pulled back with a vast view of the nightmarish trenches and mortar fire with him in the midst of it. A good comic book is a beautiful re-use of other forms of story-telling.

I guess that's who the creators think read graphic novels. Despite the lofty ideas you never find yourself intimidated and the pages fly by enjoyably.

More serious is the problem that many of these personalities are put together a little incongruously, and compared to Russell lack context for some of their thought and ways, that the logic from madness or madness from logic theme theme might be unconsciously invoked without it being warranted.

May 23, Dylan Grant rated it really liked it. Didn't think I could do a logicomiix reference like that, did you?

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

Readers who are unfamiliar with these ideas could, I think, really become hooked. It helps to have the two narrating voices - Ru The book is a modern telling of two stories: Christos dismisses not only the human aspects of the story, but the foundational and philosophical character of the quest. It is a novel, largely based on facts. Apart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has written two plays. Yes, I'm still in Teacher-mode, but that's not important right now.

Ultimately, the lack of comix magick a.

Logicomix An Epic Search for Truthcame as a complete surprise to me. I fluctuated between the present one star short rating and the full during the course of my read, mulling over this point a fair bit and this is what I hope to remark on here. And on the whole, the details of these often quite abstruse theoretical investigations are very well explained here, embedded as they are in the context of the main players' personal lives and professional rivalries.

On rereading it I am even more impressed. Monk's first volume on the early, logical Russell is excellent, though in the second volume the conservative and prudish Monk downgrades Russell out of dislike of Russell's turbulent political and sex life. Account Options Sign in. Russell got over it and maybe even secretly admired Wittgenstein all the more for it.

Even when Russell's explanations aren't especially helpful On infinity: Be I am a newbie to Philosophy.

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An Epic Search for Truth. Christos seems close to completely subverting what makes the book so exciting and original.

After his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. It is hard not to like such characters as Whitehead, Wittgenstein and of course Russel from the moment they appear on the page.