I had a longer and more technical post that I wanted to make but that will have to wait. In the meantime, I've spent much of today reading Doxiadis and Papadimitriou's Logicomix, a graphic novel biography of Bertrand Russell and his search for the foundations of mathematics. It's very engrossing — I had a hard time pulling myself away from it to write this post. Highly recommended.




Comments:

zianchoy:
2010-01-03T03:27:13Z

Thanks for the book recommendation.

It's always interesting to see people turn math into something besides dreary textbooks/journal articles.

11011110:
2010-01-03T03:49:18Z

Not all textbooks and journal articles are dreary, but I agree.

For another very non-dreary transformation of math, see the origami in Between the Folds, now available on DVD from PBS.

mattimooz:
2010-01-03T13:32:28Z

Oh excellent I got that for Christmas, I was already looking forward to reading it :D

11011110:
2010-01-03T16:54:33Z

It's also a much quicker read than a non-graphic novel that size would be, so don't be intimidated.