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Written by Vaggelis   
Thursday, 18 December 2008 20:24

In that Logicomix can be characterized by two broad attributes, namely that it is a graphic novel and that it tells the story of modern logic, we have divided our recommended reading into two categories, which we will call:

Words and Pictures and The Story of Logic

Words and Pictures

These are some of our favorite graphic novels.

Maus, Art Spiegelman – Pantheon Books
Blankets, Craig Thompson – Top Shelf Productions
Palestine, Joe Sacco – Fantagraphics Books
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi – Pantheon Books
Tintin, Herge
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth - Drawn and Quarterly
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware - Pantheon Books
The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller - DC Comics
Watchmen, Alan Moore - DC Comics
Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud - HarperCollins
Reinventing Comics, Scott McCloud - HarperCollins
Making Comics, Scott McCloud - HarperCollins

 

The Story of Logic

no-image In Quest of Certainty: Bertrand Russell’s Search for Certainty in Religion and Mathematics up to the Principles of Mathematics (1903), Stefan Andersson - Alqvist & Wiksell International
The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Martin Davis - W. W. Norton & Company
The Hilbert Challenge, Jeremy J. Gray - Oxford University Press
Wittgenstein’s Vienna, Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin - Simon and Schuster
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Ray Monk - Jonathan Cape
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, Ray Monk - Jonathan Cape
Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, Ray Monk - Jonathan Cape
Hilbert, Constance Reid - Springer-Verlag
My Philosophical Development, Bertrand Russell - George Allen & Unwin
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell - George Allen & Unwin
The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin, ed. - Routledge
no-image The Philosophers, Ben-Ami Scharfstein - Oxford University Press
no-image The Vienna Circle, Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism, Friedrich Stadler - Springer-Verlag
From Frege to Gödel, Jean Van Heijenoort - Harvard University Press
no-image Pythagorean Crimes, Tefcros Michaelidis - Parmenides Publishing
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein - Routledge and Kegan Paul