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Apostolos Doxiadis

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Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece.

Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen. He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.

After his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the International Cen...more See Απόστολος Δοξιάδης.
Apostolos Doxiadis was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1953, and grew up in Greece.

Although interested in fiction and the arts from his youngest years, a sudden and totally unexpected love affair with mathematics led him to New York's Columbia University at the age of fifteen. He did graduate work in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, working on mathematical models for the nervous system.

After his studies, Apostolos returned to Greece and his adolescent loves of writing, cinema and the theater. For some years he directed professionally for the theater, and in 1983 made his first film Underground Passage (in Greek). His second film, Terirem (1986) won the prize of the International Center for Artistic Cinema (CICAE) at the 1988 Berlin International Film Festival.

Since the mid-eighties, most of Apostolos' work has been in fiction. He has published four novels in Greek, Parallel Life (1985), Makavettas (1988), Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (1992) and Three Little Men (1997). His translation of Uncle Petros was published internationally in 2000, to great critical acclaim, and has since been translated into over thirty languages. Apostolos now writes in both Greek and English.

imageview.aspx2Apart from his work in fiction, Apostolos has written two plays. In 1999, he wrote and directed the musical shadow puppet play "The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist", accompanied by a volume of texts and images, Paralipomena. In 2006, his play Seventeenth Night had a year-long run in an Athens theatre. The play is a fictional recreation of the last days in the life of the great logician, and father of the incompleteness theorem, Kurt Gödel.

In autumn 2008, Apostolos, completed the graphic novel Logicomix, co-authored with Christos H. Papadimitriou, with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna. The book's story is based on the epic quest for the foundations of mathematics. Logicomix was published in Autumn 2009 by Bloomsbury in the U.S. and the U.K.

Apart from his work in the various modes of storytelling, in the past few years, Apostolos has been studying the relationship between mathematics and narrative. He is currently editing a volume on mathematics and narrative with mathematician Barry Mazur, of Harvard University, due to be published in 2010.

Apostolos lives in Athens with his wife, the novelist Dorina Papaliou, and their children.(less)

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Average rating: 3.90 · 3,666 ratings · 609 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis (Author), Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 3,165 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession 3.91 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1992 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Από την παράνοια στους αλγόριθμους: Η δέκατη έβδομη νύχτα και άλλες διαδρομές by Apostolos Doxiadis, Απόστολος Δοξιάδης 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative by Apostolos Doxiadis (Editor), Barry Mazur (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Τα τρία ανθρωπάκια by Apostolos Doxiadis, Απόστολος Δοξιάδης 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:

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“It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

tags: logic , reason

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“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

tags: abyss , death , logic , madmen , mystics , war

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