Logicomix
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.
