[FOM] Logicomix

[Bill Greenberg]

Logicomix can be downloaded at
http://www.4shared.com/dir/32321882/f54afa6c/sharing.html.  The six
smaller files--or one large file--which comprise the book can be
opened with 7-Zip File Manager, a free utility downloadable at
http://download.cnet.com/7-Zip/3000-2250_4-10045185.html.

Prior to opening these files, I virus-checked them (with AVG Free:
updated) and ad-checked them (with Ad-Aware: updated): they are virus-
and ad-free.

Best regards,
William J. Greenberg

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Staffan Angere
<Staffan.Angere at fil.lu.se> wrote:
> I definitely enjoyed Logicomix. I'm not sure about the target audience, but I've recommended it to all my strudents ever since i read it last summer. In my opinion, it transmits the dram, passion and intensity inherent in logic very well, even if it doesn't transmit the logic itself. I've always thought that as long as the students get interested in the subject, the question of what they actually learn is somewhat secondary.
>
> Staffan Angere
> Lund University
>
>
>
> For FOMers who are not already aware of it, Doxiadis and Papadimitriou
> came out with a book called "Logicomix" last year.  It is a slightly
> fictionalized story of the development of the foundations of mathematics
> from Frege through Turing, written in the form of a comic book (or a
> graphic novel, as some call it).  A search of the FOM archives turned up
> only a passing reference to the book by Vaughan Pratt, so I figure that
> not everyone has heard of it.
>
> I enjoyed the book although it left me wondering who the intended audience
> is.  It does not, I think, give the reader much sense of what the "giants"
> of f.o.m. achieved, other than pave the way for the invention of the
> computer.  But it's also clearly not pitched at experts.  Still, I think
> it's well worth the couple of hours it takes to breeze through the book.
>
> Tim
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