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Doxiadis centers his story around the telling of bertrand russells lifelong struggle to provide an absolutely certain truth to a large group of students and protesters. Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to new yorks columbia university at the age of fifteen. Logicomix by apostolos doxiadis and christos h papadimitriou. December 3, 2009 this math and philosophyobsessed graphic novel, by apostolos doxiadis and christos h. Logicomix, a graphic novel, is based on the epic story of the quest for the foundations of mathematics. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the. His father, a paediatrician, was minister of refugees, social welfare and public health in greece and. Apostolos is coeditorwith barry mazurand contributor on the volume circles distubed. Lev grossman, time logicomix is an engaging, energetic work that makes big ideas accessible without dumbing them down. Constantinos doxiadis was born in stenimachos greek. An epic search for truth apostolos doxiadis, author, christos papadimitriou, author, alecos papadatos, illustrator. Alex fitch talks to to author apostolos doxiadis about the graphic novel logicomix an epic search for truth which he cowrote with computer scientist christos papadimitriou from the university of california in berkeley.
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