It's fun. Although some (most?) people don't really follow the rules of using symbols of the season or similar references and they just write a few words about whatever they want and call it Haiku. If I were Japanese I would be mad at this. As I'm not, I just enjoy reading these snips.
Today in my trip back to Italy I had plenty of free time so I finished the Logicomix book. A kind gift from my cousin Hugo :) For the ones who don't know yet, Logicomix is a comics book about the history - or better, the characters, of logics. The text is witty and the art is amazing. You can trust me on this one because I'm not a fan of comics, quite the opposite. Also interesting is that a (very) famous theoretical computer scientist, Christos Papadimitriou is one of the authors and appears as a narrator in the book.
Just wow - Logicians were (are??) completely crazy. Comes with the job I guess. Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein, Fredge, Gödel, North, all just crazzzzzy. Mentally ill, open marriages, dementia and more really crazy stuff. Reading the book is like seeing a documentary about the work of some genial revolutionary and eccentric artists but with rock star scientists instead.
You're reading my weblog. As it's being used with different intentions, this blog is trilingual. Posts about my life, travelling and other topics are mostly written in portuguese but ocasionaly also in english or italian. Research posts are written in english. Sorry for the mess, I'm trying to figure a way to automagically translate the content. Meanwhile, try to sort it out with the tags.
