A review by killedshini
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou

5.0

Logicomix is a fantastic book that works both as a story of logic origins and an introduction to it. Although I may not agree with some of the points and themes accented by the authors, I think it is certainly worth reading. Told from the perspective of Bertrand Russel, the tale takes us back at the turn of the 20th century to show us how mathematicians and philosophers across Europe to bring about the birth of a new understanding of mathematics, science, and language. Beside Russel we meet George E. Moore, Ludwing Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, Henri Poincore, David Hilbert, Georg Cantor, Kurt Gödel, Moritz Schlick, and, surprisingly even J. M. E. McTaggart. Alongside the struggles of the logicians of old to reimagine foundations of the "Queen of the Sciences," see the meta-level of the authors' struggle to write this particular story while living their own. Both narratives are somewhat united in Aeschylus's Oresteia, a scene of which we witness in the end.