Written by Vaggelis
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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.
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Maus, Art Spiegelman – Pantheon Books |
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Blankets, Craig Thompson – Top Shelf Productions |
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Palestine, Joe Sacco – Fantagraphics Books |
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Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi – Pantheon Books |
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Tintin, Herge |
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It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, Seth - Drawn and Quarterly |
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Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Chris Ware - Pantheon Books |
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The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller - DC Comics |
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Watchmen, Alan Moore - DC Comics |
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Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud - HarperCollins |
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Reinventing Comics, Scott McCloud - HarperCollins |
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Making Comics, Scott McCloud - HarperCollins |
The Story of Logic
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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 |
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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Martin Davis - W. W. Norton & Company |
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The Hilbert Challenge, Jeremy J. Gray - Oxford University Press |
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Wittgenstein’s Vienna, Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin - Simon and Schuster |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Ray Monk - Jonathan Cape |
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Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, Ray Monk - Jonathan Cape |
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Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, Ray Monk - Jonathan Cape |
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Hilbert, Constance Reid - Springer-Verlag |
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My Philosophical Development, Bertrand Russell - George Allen & Unwin |
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell - George Allen & Unwin |
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The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin, ed. - Routledge |
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The Philosophers, Ben-Ami Scharfstein - Oxford University Press |
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The Vienna Circle, Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Logical Empiricism, Friedrich Stadler - Springer-Verlag |
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From Frege to Gödel, Jean Van Heijenoort - Harvard University Press |
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Pythagorean Crimes, Tefcros Michaelidis - Parmenides Publishing |
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein - Routledge and Kegan Paul |
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