Review: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

If you told me to read a book about a bunch of men who chased a way to find a logical foundation of mathematics, I’d suggest you didn’t know me. I topped out at pre-calc and struggled with physics, so this isn’t something I’d really like to follow up on in book form.

But that’s what Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is about. Why’d I read it? Because it’s told in graphic novel form.

The book has two stories in one: the historical story of those men who tried to put logic into math, and then the authors of this book, Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou, putting the book together. Splicing the two stories together gave it more of a human element as opposed to “these guys tried to form a mathematical theory.”

I know this isn’t very clear, but it’s hard to explain. You need to see it – literally – to get it. Reading Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth in graphic novel form made the information more accessible.