In 1999, he wrote and directed the musical shadow puppet play "The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist", accompanied by a volume of texts and images, Paralipomena. Apostolos now writes in both Greek and English.Īpart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has written two plays. His translation of Uncle Petros was published internationally in 2000, to great critical acclaim, and has since been translated into over thirty languages.
He has published four novels in Greek, Parallel Life (1985), Makavettas (1988), Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992) and Three Little Men (1997). Since the mid-eighties, most of Apostolos' work has been in fiction. His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the International Center for Artistic Cinema (CICAE) at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.Īfter his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the conflict between ideal rationality & the flawed fabric of reality.Īpostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece.Īlthough interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen. Probing, layered, the book throws light on Russell’s inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he tried to answer. With rich characterizations & atmospheric artwork, it spins the pursuit of such ideas into a satisfying tale.
This story is at the same time a historical novel & an accessible explication of some of the biggest ideas of mathematics & modern philosophy. Thru love & hate, peace & war, he persists in the mission threatening to claim both his career & happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. But his most ambitious goal-to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics-continues to loom before him.
In his agonized search for absolute truth, he crosses paths with thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert & Kurt Gödel, & finds a passionate student in Ludwig Wittgenstein. This graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics.
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