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

32 points by yagibear 17y ago

yagibear 17y ago
Web site: http://www.logicomix.com/ http://www.logicomix.com/
zitterbewegung 17y ago
From the preview that I saw it looked like a good comic so far.
NathanKP 17y ago
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?pguid=3638010447141974&isbn=9781596914520&z=bpp http://software.libredigital.com/bookrdr/live/Reader.swf?pgu... However, it gave me an error on Safari running in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
eterps 17y ago
I read it a couple of weeks ago, I can recommend it. Any suggestions for more comic books like these?
rick2047 17y ago
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).
RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
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_fifty 17y ago
That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ
middus 17y ago
I just read it and it is awesome!

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

32 points by yagibear 17y ago

yagibear 17y ago
Web site: http://www.logicomix.com/ http://www.logicomix.com/
zitterbewegung 17y ago
From the preview that I saw it looked like a good comic so far.
NathanKP 17y ago
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?pguid=3638010447141974&isbn=9781596914520&z=bpp http://software.libredigital.com/bookrdr/live/Reader.swf?pgu... However, it gave me an error on Safari running in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
eterps 17y ago
I read it a couple of weeks ago, I can recommend it. Any suggestions for more comic books like these?
rick2047 17y ago
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).
RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
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_fifty 17y ago
That page of the comic in the article, reminds me of this video of Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqwm6RbxcQ
middus 17y ago
I just read it and it is awesome!