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Logicomix

Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou
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      This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. Driven by a desire for knowledge of his own history, he attempted to force the world to yield to his yearnings: for truth, clarity and resolve. As he grew older, and increasingly sophisticated as a philosopher and mathematician, Russell strove to create an objective language with which to describe the world - one free of the biases and slippages of the written word. At the same time, he began courting his first wife, teasing her with riddles and leaning on her during the darker days, when his quest was bogged down by paradoxes, frustrations and the ghosts of his family's secrets. Ultimately, he found considerable success - but his career was stalled when he was outmatched by an intellectual rival: his young, strident, brilliantly original student, Ludwig Wittgenstein. An insightful and complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell's inner struggle and the quest for the foundations of logic.Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story's heady and powerful ideas. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the conflict between pure reason and the persistent flaws of reality, a narrative populated by great and august thinkers, young lovers, ghosts and insanity.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou EAN: 9780747597209 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 237 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-09-07 CITY: GENRE: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy WIDTH: 170 cm SPINE:

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      History of mathematics, Graphic novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction

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      Admitted to Columbia University when he was 15, Apostolos Doxiadis has studied mathematics at both undergraduate and graduate level. An internationally recognised expert on the subjects of mathematics and narrative, he has also worked in film and theatre, and is the author of the international bestseller Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture.
      This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. Driven by a desire for knowledge of his own history, he attempted to force the world to yield to his yearnings: for truth, clarity and resolve. As he grew older, and increasingly sophisticated as a philosopher and mathematician, Russell strove to create an objective language with which to describe the world - one free of the biases and slippages of the written word. At the same time, he began courting his first wife, teasing her with riddles and leaning on her during the darker days, when his quest was bogged down by paradoxes, frustrations and the ghosts of his family's secrets. Ultimately, he found considerable success - but his career was stalled when he was outmatched by an intellectual rival: his young, strident, brilliantly original student, Ludwig Wittgenstein. An insightful and complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell's inner struggle and the quest for the foundations of logic.Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story's heady and powerful ideas. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the conflict between pure reason and the persistent flaws of reality, a narrative populated by great and august thinkers, young lovers, ghosts and insanity.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou EAN: 9780747597209 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 237 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC DATE PUBLISHED: 2009-09-07 CITY: GENRE: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy WIDTH: 170 cm SPINE:

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      History of mathematics, Graphic novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction

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      Admitted to Columbia University when he was 15, Apostolos Doxiadis has studied mathematics at both undergraduate and graduate level. An internationally recognised expert on the subjects of mathematics and narrative, he has also worked in film and theatre, and is the author of the international bestseller Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture.

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