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New Comic Book About Logic, Math, and Madness

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the only-math-some-kids-are-likely-to-get-these-days dept.

areYouAHypnotist writes to tell us the New York Times has the scoop on a new comic book about the quest for logical certainty in mathematics. "The story spans the decades from the late 19th century to World War II, a period when the nature of mathematical truth was being furiously debated. The stellar cast, headed up by Bertrand Russell, includes the greatest philosophers, logicians and mathematicians of the era, along with sundry wives and mistresses, plus a couple of homicidal maniacs, an apocryphal barber, and Adolf Hitler."

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  1. Re:It's like dinosaur comics by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, it's more like these two Dresden Codak strips:

    Dungeons and Discourse
    Advanced Dungeons and Discourse

  2. Re:Missed opportunities by tvelocity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So there's that, and from what I could tell there is no mention of Gödel's incompleteness theorems, either. Meh.

    It does. Even Von Neumann's reaction to it is included. I had the chance to read the Greek version in august, and it is pretty awesome. Both for computer scientists and mathematicians, it is pure win. I'm so glad that it gets published in English as well now, I would HIGHLY recommend this comic book to any geek.

  3. Bipolar = Art; Schizophrenia = Math/Science by Cruxus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems like there's a disproportionate number of people with bipolar disorder in the ranks of the artistically creative and a disproportionate number of scientific/mathematical geniuses with schizophrenia or schizophrenia-like symptoms.

    --
    On vit, on code et puis on meurt.
  4. Re:Maybe it's just an unfortunate quote, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Are you really so feminist that you assume women MUST HAVE contributed somehow, and if they are not mentioned, it must have been because they were unfairly left out of the story? Just why do you find it so unlikely?