Probing, layered, the book throws light on Russell’s inner struggles while setting them in the context of the timeless questions he tried to answer.
With rich characterizations & atmospheric artwork, it spins the pursuit of such ideas into a satisfying tale. This story is at the same time a historical novel & an accessible explication of some of the biggest ideas of mathematics & modern philosophy. Thru love & hate, peace & war, he persists in the mission threatening to claim both his career & happiness, finally driving him to the brink of insanity. But his most ambitious goal-to establish unshakable logical foundations of mathematics-continues to loom before him. In his agonized search for absolute truth, he crosses paths with thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert & Kurt Gödel, & finds a passionate student in Ludwig Wittgenstein. This graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. 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.An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathematics. Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story’s heady and powerful ideas. An insightful and complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell’s inner struggle and the quest for the foundations of logic. 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. 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. 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. 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. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell’s life.
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