LOGICOMIX

Book ID/图书代码： 03277008B25517

English Summary/英文概要： LOGICOMIX is the brainchild of two extraordinary men: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou. It tells the story behind foundational mathematics, the ultimately futile quest for a guarantee of the consistency and completeness of all mathematical truth – and thus, by extension, all natural science – and the birth of the modern computer.

The book opens in contemporary Athens (the city where logic was ‘born’ 25 centuries ago) but is largely set against the backdrop of some of the most momentous historical events of the twentieth century including the two World Wars. LOGICOMIX is told largely through the characters of Bertrand Russell and his peers in the field of maths, science and philosophy. We meet Georg Cantor, the father of set theory, Gottlob Frege, the great logician, David Hilbert and Henri Poincaré, both brilliant mathematicians and lifelong antagonists, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kurt Gödel, a man known as the new Aristotle, and the two fathers of computing, Alan Turing and John von Neumann. But while LOGICOMIX is in part an intellectual quest it also, necessarily, vividly relates a complex interweaving story of the lives of these great men, their families and friends, and the partial achievements, tragedies and disappointments that marked this generation. It is a story that ends in an unexpected triumph and with great resonance for all of us because it culminates in the birth of the computer. www.logicomix.com/

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Logicomix是Christos Papadimitriou和Apostolos Doxiadis合著的一本漫畫，除了講述了邏輯學在20世紀扮演的角色，更介紹數學研究的目的及追求其真理的精神，如何延伸到電腦發展上。故事從希臘的雅典（25世紀前邏輯學的誕生地）展開。漫畫中的角色有二十世紀最有影響力的哲學家、數學家和邏輯學家之一Bertrand Russell、集合理論之父Georg Cantor，偉大的數學家David Hilbert 及 Henri Poincaré、哲學家Ludwig Wittgenstein、計算機之父Alan Turing 及John von Neumann等。(VL)

Awards/获奖情况：結合數理科學及漫畫的創意之作！
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UK (Bloomsbury), US (Bloomsbury), France (Vuibert), Italy (Guanda), the Netherlands (De Vliegende Hollander), Israel (Books in the Attic), Greece (Icarus: they have published already and it’s a huge bestseller) and Turkey (Albatros).
Here are all the relevant links:
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/bertrand-russell-the-thinking-persons-superhero-1780185.html
Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fa4b1520-98e3-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html
Publishers Weekly:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6651367.html?nid=2789
Kirkus Reviews:
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/kirkusreviews/images/pdf/graphic1.pdf
Booklist (not available online without subscription, but quoted in the attachment)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LOGICOMIX

About the Author/作者介绍： Apostolos Doxiadis was at the age of 15 admitted to Columbia University to study mathematics. Among a number of interlocking careers, he is a celebrated theatre and film director and novelist. His most recent novel, UNCLE PETROS AND GOLDBACH’S CONJECTURE, became a bestseller in many of the countries in which it was sold.
Christos H. Papadimitriou is one of the world’s most important theoretical computer scientists. He currently holds the Lister C. Hogan Chair at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been awarded numerous honorary doctorates and other distinctions including the Charles Babbage Prize. Bill Gates is one of his former pupils. He is the founder of the non-profit organization Thale and Friends, which is dedicated to exploring the relationship of mathematics to narrative and bridging the gap separating mathematics from ‘culture’ at large.
Apostolos Doxiadis，在十五時就進入哥倫比亞大學數學系，數學可說是他的人生目標，但除此之後他有從事戲劇、電影及小說創意工作。其先前著作《遇見哥德巴赫猜想》(UNCLE PETROS AND GOLDBACH’S CONJECTURE)更暢銷全世界。
Christos Papadimitriou，擁有普林斯頓大學博士學位，現為加州大學伯克利分校教授。他曾在哈佛大學、麻省理工學院、雅典工藝學院、斯坦福大學和加州大學聖達戈分校執教。微軟創辦人比爾蓋茲也曾是他的學生之一。他的主要研究領域是演算法和複雜度理論及其在資料庫、最優化、人工智慧、網路方面的應用，博弈理論。著有《Computational Complexity》和《Combinatorial Optimization》等書。

Format:全彩四色

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