Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller

Posted by chaosdesigner on Thursday October 15, 2009 @11:29AM
from the cosmosmagazine.com dept.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3070/greek-maths-comic-surprise-bestseller

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by rubymaverick on Thursday October 15, 2009 @01:18PM (#883787)

I've read it and I couldn't imagine anyone on HN NOT liking it.

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by pgbovine on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:57PM (#884140)

how much popular appeal do you think it has beyond the erudite geek audience? that'd be great if this thing went really mainstream!

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by hegemonicon on Thursday October 15, 2009 @12:48PM (#883722)

You have to love a comic that stars Kurt Godel as the villain...

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by ngvrnd on Thursday October 15, 2009 @08:52PM (#884564)

Um... what? More of a villain than Bertrand Russell himself? I liked the vignette where Cantor was thrilled that Russell had destroyed set theory, as it fit into his current mental illness nicely.

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by simonista on Thursday October 15, 2009 @10:43PM (#884685)

Crazy. I just heard an absolutely glowing review of this from a friend less than two hours ago. He said it was one of those things he picked up just to see what it was and couldn't put down again until he'd finished it. And now it's on Hacker News. It's definitely going on my short list.

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by RiderOfGiraffes on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:54PM (#884250)

See the comments here: http://searchyc.com/logicomix

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 15, 2009 @02:55PM (#884001)

I expected a graphic novel to be illustrated with ... a graphic!?

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by MikeCapone on Thursday October 15, 2009 @01:11PM (#883775)

Anyone here has read it? Would you recommend it?

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by larryfreeman on Thursday October 15, 2009 @04:30PM (#884208)

I've read it. It's great. The focus on Bertrand Russell really worked for me as did the interesting facts about his family and some of the famous mathematicians of his day.

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Re:Greek maths comic is surprise bestseller by ngvrnd on Thursday October 15, 2009 @08:52PM (#884568)

Read it, highly recommended. Loved it.

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