Here’s something I just read about over at LogBlog. It’s a graphic novel with a logical focus, written by Apostolos Doxiadis (author of the mathematically-tinged 1992 novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture) and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.

Cover from Logicomix

Papadimitriou might be best known to logicians from his textbook with Harry Lewis on the theory of computation. But he already has an earlier foray into fiction. In 2003, his Turing: A Novel about Computation was published. Yes, it really is a novel, complete with a love triangle and digressions about, well, computation. (Note: the title refers to a character that is not the Alan you know.) I actually own a copy of that book; my mother the computer scientist gave it to me one birthday. At the risk of her seeing this, I only read the first little bit of that book. But that reflects more on my general relationship with novels than it does on the readability of that particular tome.

In any case, while I have never been one for comics or graphic novels, I’m sufficiently curious about Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth to give it a shot. For one thing, all of the art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna looks very nice. I won’t say anything about the contents of the book, having not had my hands on it. A preview is available at the Logicomix site, and Richard Zach gives his largely favorable take in the post linked to above.