Logicomix

Apostolos Doxiadis,C

文学

漫画 哲学 逻辑 数学 传记 罗素 logic Comic

2009-9-29

Bloomsbury USA

内容简介
An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Godel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein. But his most ambitious goal--to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics--continues to loom before him. Through love and hate, peace and war, Russell persists in the dogged mission that threatens to claim both his career and his personal happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. This story is at the same time a historical novel and an accessible explication of some of the biggest ideas of mathematics and modern philosophy. With rich characterizations and expressive, atmospheric artwork, the book spins the pursuit of these ideas into a highly satisfying tale. Probing and ingeniously layered, the book throws light on Russell's inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he spent his life trying to answer. At its heart, "Logicomix "is a story about the conflict between an ideal rationality and the unchanging, flawed fabric of reality.Apostolos Doxiadis studied mathematics at Columbia University. His international bestseller "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture" spearheaded the impressive entrance of mathematics into the world of storytelling. Apart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has also worked in film and theater and is an internationally recognized expert on the relationship of mathematics to narrative. Christos H. Papadimitriou is C . Lester Hogan professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was won numerous international awards for his pioneering work in computational complexity and algorithmic game theory. Christos is the author of the novel "Turing: A Novel about Computation." Alecos Papadatos worked for over twenty years in film animation in France and Greece. In 1997, he became a cartoonist for the major Athens daily "To Vima." He lives in Athens with his wife, Annie Di Donna, and their two children. Annie Di Donna studied graphic arts and painting in France and has worked as animator on many productions, among them "Babar" and "Tintin." Since 1991, she has been running an animation studio with her husband, Alecos Papadatos. This innovative graphic novel is based on the early life of the brilliant philosopher Bertrand Russell. Russell and his impassioned pursuit of truth. Haunted by family secrets and unable to quell his youthful curiosity, Russell became obsessed with a Promethean goal: to establish the logical foundation of all mathematics. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Godel, and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein. But the object of his defining quest continues to loom before him. Through love and hate, peace and war, Russell persists in the dogged mission that threatens to claim both his career and his personal happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. "Logicomix" is at the same time a historical novel and an accessible explication to some of the biggest ideas of mathematics and modern philosophy. With rich characterizations and expressive, atmospheric artwork, the book spins the pursuit of these ideas into a captivating tale. Probing and ingeniously layered, the book throws light on Russell's inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he spent his life trying to answer. At its heart, "Logicomix" is a story about the conflict between an ideal rationality and the unchanging, flawed fabric of reality. "At the heart of Logicomix stands Sir Bertrand Russell, a man determined to find a way of arriving at absolutely right answers. It's a tale within a tale, as the two authors and two graphic artists ardently pursue their own search for truth and appear as characters in the book. As one of them assures us, this won't be 'your typical, usual comic book.' Their quest takes shape and revolves around a lecture given by Russell at an unnamed American university in 1939, a lecture that is really, as he himself tells us, the story of his life and of his pursuit of real logical truth. With Proustian ambition and exhilarating artwork, "Logicomix"'s search for truth encounters head-on the horrors of the Second World War and the agonizing question of whether war can ever be the right choice. Russell himself had to confront that question personally: he endured six months in jail for his pacifism. Russell was determined to find the perfect logical method for solving all problems and attempted to remold human nature in his experimental school at Beacon Hill. Despite repeated failures, Russell never stopped being 'a sad little boy desperately seeking ways out of the deadly vortex of uncertainty.' The book is a visual banquet chronicling Russell's lifelong pursuit of 'certainty in total rationality.' As Logic and Mathematics, the last bastions of certainty, fail him, and as Reason proves not absolute, Russell is forced to face the fact that there is no Royal Road to Truth. Authors Dosiadis and Papadimitriou perfectly echo Russell's passion, with a sincere, easily grasped text amplified with breathtaking visual richness, making this the most satisfying graphic novel of 2009, a titanic artistic achievement of more than 300 pages, all of it pure reading joy."--Nick DiMartino, "Shelf Awareness" "This is an extraordinary graphic novel, wildly ambitious in daring to put into words and drawings the life and thought of one of the great philosophers of the last century, Bertrand Russell. The book is a rare intellectual and artistic achievement, which will, I am sure, lead its readers to explore realms of knowledge they thought were forbi
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  • googollee的评论
    #Logicomix# Maybe what brings these giants to logic is fear of ambiguity and emotion.
  • googollee的评论
    马桶上真是读书的好地方啊,看 #Logicomix# 看得不想起来,似乎要讲到对欧氏几何平行公理的探讨了
  • googollee的评论
    “请问,这是Frege的家么?”“不,这是他的花园,家在那。”“那Frege在家么?”“不,他在花园。”喷了,这也太逻辑严密了! #Logicomix#
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    在读《Logicomix》 网页链接
  • 桑橙树下的小猫的评论
    除了“Turning”,还推荐他的另一本小说"Logicomix" (漫画[嘘]). 当然还有正在写的第三部小说 "Independence."//@歌之忆: 这位作者是组合优化与计算复杂性方面的优秀学者。MIT出版社经常出版科学家写的小说。推荐之!
  • 鹏和靖的评论
    漫画logicomix:一本关于哲学家,逻辑学家卢梭(Bertrand Russell)的书。书格式简单易懂,将Russell人生和理论结合起来,在难懂的地方有很好的幽默感使读者不感觉被拒绝阅读。节奏明快,是一本很快被消化的漫画。
  • 吉米-皮波的评论
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  • googollee的评论
    原来是漫画,Logicomix是Logic + comic,看了半天才明白题目是啥意思 //@图灵谢工:本书译者@图灵傅志红 ,目前是图灵公司副总经理,负责翻译生产出版工作,如有需要傅老师签名的,可提前告诉我。
  • googollee的评论
    “女人是如此没逻辑的生物。我试图跟妻子解释真相这个概念,但她就是不懂。“ #Logicomix# RT @Alsophilae: @googollee 笑点何在…
  • googollee的评论
    #Logicomix# 战争改变了很多,比如艺术变成了否定艺术的艺术。前提:旧世界的原则创造出来了战争这个怪物,结论:旧世界的原则需要被否定,包括艺术的原则