IN THIS graphic-novel biography of philosopher and mathematician , the book’s artists draw themselves and their debates with the authors about how, say, to illustrate the concept “proof”.Such self-reference is at the heart of the story, from Russell’s despair at the paradox that halted his effort to put mathematics on a rigorous footing, to Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems nailing down that project’s coffin.
Logicomix grippingly recounts the turmoil of the 20th-century logical world. As Russell searches for certainties we ask with him: does formal logic drive people mad, or does madness drive them to formal logic?
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