[PRL] Papadimitriou @ Snell Library Wed 10/28

Daniel Brown dbrown at ccs.neu.edu
Thu Oct 22 14:19:03 EDT 2009


Harvard Book Store is also hosting him the same day at 6p at Brattle
Theatre. Tickets are $5 and can additionally be used as $5 coupons at the
store, which has a fine selection of used books downstairs.
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=2383

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:32, Mitchell Wand <wand at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Alas, this is opposite Gene's joint Systems Seminar/pl-seminar.  Part of
> the Library's Meet the Author series. --Mitch
> [image: Logicomix] *Logicomix
> Author: Christos Papadimitriou
> Wed., October 28, 2009
> 12:00 p.m.
> 90 Snell Library
> *  This beautiful graphic novel tells the true story of Bertrand Russell,
> British logician, anti-war activist, and Nobel Prize winner, and his
> colleagues in the fields of math, science, and philosophy. It is set against
> the historical backdrop of major twentieth century events, including the two
> World Wars, and explores Russell’s passionate quest for mathematical truth.
>
>
> *"Some superheroes leap tall buildings with a single bound. Others catch
> thieves just like flies. But the ones in Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H.
> Papadimitriou’s graphic novel just think—really hard—about an incredibly
> difficult dilemma. Like all the best superheroes, they are deeply,
> fascinatingly flawed characters."*
> —Financial Times
>
> *"This is an extraordinary graphic novel, wildly ambitious in daring to
> put into words and drawings the life and thought of one of the greatest
> philosophers of the last century, Bertrand Russell…A rare intellectual and
> artistic achievement, which will, I’m sure, lead its readers to explore
> realms of knowledge they thought were forbidden to them."
> —*Howard Zinn, author of *A People’s History of the United States.*
>
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