Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth

What Hacker News says

1. DavidbrczJun 2025
   Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is a graphic novel about the foundational quest in mathematics
   thread
2. khadgar25Aug 2021
   "Logicomix: An epic search for truth" [1] is a graphic novel that chronicles the life of Bertrand Russell (logician and philosopher) and his interactions with legendary thinkers like Gottlob Frege, David Hilbert, and Kurt Gödel. I really enjoyed this. It was fun and highly educational.

   [1] https://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-search-truth-Apostolos-Doxi...

   thread
3. igraviousNov 2020
   By analogy you're pretty much saying that you don't understand Sesame Street -- educational material plus silly gags. What's not to understand? It's a comic, a comic strip whose putative subject matter is the teaching of a particular programming language. What's not to get? Why does that conceptual union go over your head?

   If a counting numbers tutorial can be taught by a vampire puppet in a TV show then a programming tutorial can be couched in the form of a comic strip with talking foxes.

   Maybe I'm taking you too literally. I mean, are you saying that the Poignant Guide is not to your taste? I'd understand if you were saying that it isn't to your taste. But you don't appear to be saying that -- you appear to be saying that you essentially don't get how the genre is meant to work.

   Consider Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Logicomix-Search-Truth-Apostolos-... -- a biographies of Frege, Russell, and Gödel and the history of predicate logic in comic book form …

   Or consider The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Thrilling-Adventures-Lovelace-Bab... -- a history of early mechanical computer science in comic book form …

   Or consider Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Sc... -- literary criticism of the comic book form in comic book form!

   Show morethread
4. santareaderNov 2013
   The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html

   The Mapping of the Heavens by Peter Whitfield - http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780876544754

   The Macmillan Visual Dictionary - http://www.amazon.com/The-Macmillan-Visual-Dictionary-Illust...

   Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth - http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596...

   The Complete Calvin and Hobbes - http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Calvin-Hobbes-Bill-Watterson/...

   Show morethread
5. edanmJan 2013
   Very heavily seconded. One of my favorite novels, it does a really good job of giving a "feeling" of mathematics, without including any actual mathematics.

   This is the same author as Logicomix, which is aslo very highly recommended - a comic about logic, Godel, and the foundations of mathematics.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix

   http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596... (this might be with a refferal link, I'm not sure - you have been warned :)

   Show morethread
6. tqsOct 2012
   I really enjoyed Logicomix, a self-aware graphic novel mostly revolving around Bertrand Russell (with appearances by Godel, Wittgenstein, etc.) http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596...
   thread