What a comic book! Easily one of the most impressive combinations of popular art and serious history that I’ve encountered in prose or in comics.” And all of Logicomix’s storytelling and intellectual pyrotechnics are delineated in extraordinarily crisp, cleverly designed and beautifully colored by the team of Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna. It’s a biography of the mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell, a fiercely engaging examination of his elusive attempt to isolate the logical foundations of mathematics, and a rousing historical yarn. “It’s not difficult to be dazzled by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou’s Logicomix. BARRY MAZUR, Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, and author of Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) And we see the band of artists and researchers-and the all-seeking dog Manga-creating, and participating in, this glorious narrative.” We see the Erinyes of Aeschylus’s Oresteia giving up their principle of merciless revenge in favor of considered justice. We see how Gödel illuminates their project.

It follows the great mathematicians-Russell, Whitehead, Frege, Cantor, Hilbert-as they agonized to make the foundations of mathematics exact, consistent, and complete. “This magnificent book is about ideas, passions, madness, and the fierce struggle between well-defined principle and the larger good.

HOWARD ZINN, historian and author of A People’s History of the United States Interwoven with breathtaking excursions into logic and mathematics, in language we can all understand, is the trajectory of Russell’s personal life - his parents and grandparents, his wives, his inner conflicts. 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 forbidden to them.” “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.

Logicomix by apostolos doxiadis