Logicomix

This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. 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. 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. 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. 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. An insightful and complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell's inner struggle and the quest for the foundations of logic. Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story's heady and powerful ideas. 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.

ISBN 0747597200   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780747597209 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Published in London Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Height (mm) 237 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 170 Publication date 07 Sep 2009   Academic level General DEWEY 741.5

Blackwell review:
Madness and mathematics; part biography of Bertrand Russell, part history of the philosophy of maths. Don't be fooled by this book's format, its cleverness is not restricted to it's name. A quirky gift for philosophers, mathematicians or aspiring thinkers.

Tom - Broad Street

Madness and mathematics; part biography of Bertrand Russell, part history of the philosophy of maths. Don't be fooled by this book's format, its cleverness is not restricted to it's name. A quirky gift for philosophers, mathematicians or aspiring thinkers. By Tom, Oxford Broad Street



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