Recently read: Logicomix
Logicomix, by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, art by Alecos Papdatos and Annie Di Donna
This is a lightly fictionalized (they footnote the changes) retelling of the search for a rigorous foundation in mathematics. This seems an unlikely topic for a graphic novel (and Lord Bertrand Russell a most unlikely comic protagonist), but the result works well.
It covers the reasons for the search for a solid axiomatic foundation, along with the related events of time time. I had not previously fully appreciated the appeal of set theory (being familiar with Russell's paradox, which reduces the appeal), and that's one of the parts of math history that this illuminates. It, of course, includes what I consider the greatest mathematical result of the 20th century: Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Highly recommended, if that sounds at all interesting.
This is a lightly fictionalized (they footnote the changes) retelling of the search for a rigorous foundation in mathematics. This seems an unlikely topic for a graphic novel (and Lord Bertrand Russell a most unlikely comic protagonist), but the result works well.
It covers the reasons for the search for a solid axiomatic foundation, along with the related events of time time. I had not previously fully appreciated the appeal of set theory (being familiar with Russell's paradox, which reduces the appeal), and that's one of the parts of math history that this illuminates. It, of course, includes what I consider the greatest mathematical result of the 20th century: Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Highly recommended, if that sounds at all interesting.