Logicomix - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review(nytimes.com)

32 pointsby yagibear17 lat temu8 comments

Logicomix - A Comic Book About Logic, Math and Madness - Review

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Holt-t.html

8 comments

In Paris, at the 1900 International Congress of Mathematicians, he witnesses a titanic clash between Henri Poincaré and David Hilbert, the two greatest mathematicians of the day, over the importance of intuition versus proof. Returning to England, Russell spends the next decade laboring with Alfred North Whitehead to complete the epic “Principia Mathematica” — all the while doing his best to seduce Whitehead’s comely wife, Evelyn. Their (stillborn) masterpiece runs many thousands of pages, a mere 362 of which are required to prove the interesting proposition “1 + 1 = 2.”

Sounds like a thrilling basis for a comic.

I tried to open the preview:

http://software.libredigital.com/bookrdr/live/Reader.swf?pgu...

However, it gave me an error on Safari running in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

yagibear17 lat temu

Web site: http://www.logicomix.com/

eterps17 lat temu

I read it a couple of weeks ago, I can recommend it. Any suggestions for more comic books like these?

RiderOfGiraffes17 lat temu

I was sent this a few weeks ago as a "Thank you" for proof-reading a book coming out soon. I've started it and it looks good. I'm really looking forward to sitting down and reading this properly.

Comments here have encouraged me to do that sooner rather than later.

I_got_fifty17 lat temu

That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ

zitterbewegung17 lat temu

From the preview that I saw it looked like a good comic so far.

middus17 lat temu

I just read it and it is awesome!

rick204717 lat temu

this is so cool, is it just me or someone else also thinks its something along the lines of NUMB3Rs the prime time serial (which is my all time fav TV program).