In the tradition of Fermat's Last Theorem and Einstein's Dreams, a novel about mathematical obsession. Petros Papachristos devotes the early part of his life trying to prove one of the greatest mathematical challenges of all time: Goldbach's Conjecture, the deceptively simple claim that every even number greater than two is the sum of two primes. Against a tableau of famous historical figures-among them G.H. Hardy, the self-taught Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, and a young Kurt Godel-Petros works furiously to prove the notoriously difficult conjecture. Decades later, his ambitious young nephew drives the defeated mathematician back into the hunt to prove Goldbach's Conjecture. . . but at the cost of the old man's sanity, and perhaps even his life.

This brilliantly illustrated tale of reason, insanity, love and truth recounts the story of Bertrand Russell's life. Raised by his paternal grandparents, young Russell was never told the whereabouts of his parents. 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. 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. 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. 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. An insightful and complexly layered narrative, Logicomix reveals both Russell's inner struggle and the quest for the foundations of logic. Narration by an older, wiser Russell, as well as asides from the author himself, make sense of the story's heady and powerful ideas. 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.

This innovative, dramatic graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers and finds a passionate student in the great Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Una historia gráfica de locura y razón, amor y guerra. En una época de fuertes convulsiones políticas y sociales en Europa, que finalmente desembocarían en la Primera Guerra Mundial, un grupo de pensadores exploraba el campo de la lógica y la filosofía a través de la búsqueda de los fundamentos de las matemáticas. Narrada por su principal protagonista, Bertrand Russell -uno de los grandes filósofos británicos del siglo XX-, esta obra convierte una materia tan árida como las matemáticas en una historia apasionante, una aventura donde confluyen famosos intelectuales de la talla de Frege, Hilbert, Poincaré, Wittgenstein, Gödel y Cantor, personajes que marcaron para siempre nuestra concepción del mundo. La crítica ha dicho... « Logicómix derrocha originalidad; en sus páginas se produce un rico y fascinante encuentro entre los mitos, las matemáticas, el teatro y los gigantes de la filosofía del siglo XX.» Posy Simmonds

Une conjecture mathématique irrésolue depuis deux siècles, un oncle mathématicien rendu fou par la recherche de la solution, un neveu qui enquête, dans ce polar des nombres premiers, avec l'ambiguïté juvénile d'un héros nabokovien : Apostolos Doxiadis a réussi un roman parfaitement original et attachant que Georges Steiner et Olivier Sacks ont trouvé irrésistible, et que les communautés mathématique et littéraire anglo-saxonnes ont salué comme un exploit qui force l'admiration de deux mondes peu habitués à se rencontrer. L'éditeur anglais d'Apostolos Doxiadis offre une récompense d'un million de dollars à toute personne qui résoudra la conjecture de Goldbach !