This must fit into the unreasonable effectiveness threads somewhere,
http://www.logicomix.com/en/Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel
Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the
Foundations of Mathematics.
This was a heroic intellectual adventure most of whose protagonists
paid the price of knowledge with extreme personal suffering and even
insanity. The book tells its tale in an engaging way, at the same time
complex and accessible. It grounds the philosophical struggles on the
undercurrent of personal emotional turmoil, as well as the momentous
historical events and ideological battles which gave rise to them.
The role of narrator is given to the most eloquent and spirited of
the story’s protagonists, the great logician, philosopher and pacifist
Bertrand Russell. It is through his eyes that the plights of such great
thinkers as Frege, Hilbert, Poincaré, Wittgenstein and Gödel come to
life, and through his own passionate involvement in the quest that the
various narrative strands come together.
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