Work Fiction in Greek ĭoxiadis began to write in Greek. In Greece, although involved for some years with the computer software industry, Doxiadis returned to his childhood and adolescence loves of theatre and the cinema, before becoming a full-time writer. His father's death and family reasons made him return to Greece in 1975, interrupting his graduate studies. He then attended the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris from which he got a master's degree, with a thesis on the mathematical modelling of the nervous system. Though his earliest interests were in poetry, fiction and the theatre, an intense interest in mathematics led Doxiadis to leave school at age fifteen, to attend Columbia University, in New York, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Soon after his birth, the family returned to Athens, where Doxiadis grew up.
He is best known for his international bestsellers Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (2000) and Logicomix (2009).ĭoxiadis was born in Australia, where his father, the architect Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was working. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, LogicomixĪpostolos K. At its heart, Logicomix is a story about the conflict between pure reason and the persistent flaws of reality, a narrative populated by great and august thinkers, young lovers, ghosts and insanity.( ) 6 June 1953 (age 69) īrisbane, Queensland, Australia Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story’s heady and powerful ideas. An insightful and complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell’s inner struggle and the quest for the foundations of logic. Ultimately, he found considerable success – but his career was stalled when he was outmatched by an intellectual rival: his young, strident, brilliantly original student, Ludwig Wittgenstein. At the same time, he began courting his first wife, teasing her with riddles and leaning on her during the darker days, when his quest was bogged down by paradoxes, frustrations and the ghosts of his family’s secrets.
As he grew older, and increasingly sophisticated as a philosopher and mathematician, Russell strove to create an objective language with which to describe the world – one free of the biases and slippages of the written word. Driven by a desire for knowledge of his own history, he attempted to force the world to yield to his yearnings: for truth, clarity and resolve. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents.
This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell’s life.
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