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Science: Christos Papadimitriou: 'Logicomix'

Logicomix is an eagerly-anticipated graphic novel featuring a rather atypical superhero: the eloquent and spirited mathematician/philosopher Bertrand Russell. Logicomix isn't your typical graphic novel: covering a span of 60 years, it is inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics, a heroic intellectual adventure that led many of its protagonists to personal suffering and even insanity. With concept and story by Berkeley Computer Science professor Christos Papadimitriou (along with Athens-based Apostolos Doxiadis, a writer long obsessed with the relationship between mathematics and narrative), Logicomix sees through Russell's eyes the plights of great thinkers like Frege, Hilbert, Poincar, Wittgenstein and Gdel, and through Russell's own passionate involvement in the quest, the various narrative strands come together. Presented as part of the Seattle Science Lectures, with Pacific Science Center and University Book Store.