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Logicomix is super readable and i love the artwork. Its content was researched thoroughly. That is not the headiest blurb, but it is well worth it.
Logicomix is a beautifully rendered graphic novel about the logician and famously activist philosopher bertrand russell. The story is mainly about the life of russell and his quest to build firmer foundations for math after math had several crises in ... Read More
This book focuses on the foundational crises of mathematics in the former half of the 20th century. Quantum and wave mechanics, biology (from mendel to crick and beyond), and freud's forays into *.
The book is an astonishing look at logic and logicians. Once we climb the ladder, we see higher even if that ladder crumbles.
Cons
The author made the same mistake in his book about goldbach's conjecture. They constantly interrupt the biography of a man that is so much more interesting than the whiny, pretentious, argumentative dialogue of a bunch of west-coast yuppies.
The art is so repetitive that it makes you beg for a half-adept college student with a clip-art library and photoshop. This book gives these immense intellectual achievements short shrift.

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Quality
A rich, innovative handling of complex concepts and a fascinating life.
This is an extremely good book for giving an indication of what it means to get close to madness or the chaos of war, and how t... Read More
Also, even with respect to self-repudiating recursive loop logic that is formally condemned as being not logic because it doesn... Read More
At first it seems not only unconventional, but ridiculous to have such concepts put into this artistic medium, but somehow they... Read More
Price
I felt fairly certain that the owners of the copyright would never have consented to that, and i swore that as soon as i could ... Read More
Shipping
Good book, and was delivered very quickly.
Competitiveness
Not quite as good as economix which inspired me to try this but very interesting account of betrand russell's search for the fo... Read More
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- This product had a total of 874 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 3 2024.
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How about quantum and wave mechanics biology from mendel to crick and beyond and freuds forays into sex
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I love russells work but i found many details of his life and work that hadnt heard
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However the same sadly cannot be said of the cover
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In any case i often feel that children make more earnestly and dispassionately inquisitive philosophers than those of their elder peers
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I was studied logic and computer science in my youth so i already knew something about the topic and the personalities involved but i didnt know that much about bertrand russel himself
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I like in general reading biographies of mathematicians but i was rather skeptical about this book since it was not a “real book
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A lot of history most of it at least somewhat accurate
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