https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ elfbiter - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:02:56 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios elfbiter personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/7491818/2170751 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1007.html Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:02:56 GMT https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1007.html <b><i>Apostolos Doksiadis, Khristos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna</i></b> - Logicomix<br /><br />At least the nominal protagonist of the tale is a fictitious version of British philosopher and logician <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> who tells his life story to an audience of American isolationalists in a lecture just after the World War Two has erupted. These parts alternate with parts where the makers of the graphic novel discuss how they should proceed with the story - between Doksiadis' desire to tell a story about people and Papadimitrou's arguments about the historical and mathematical facts.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1007.html#cutid1">Through pain to the the mathematical solutions</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=1007" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/1007.html reviews academia comics mathematics science books public 0