PDF Τα τρία ανθρωπάκια By Apostolos Doxiadis

PDF Τα τρία ανθρωπάκια By Apostolos Doxiadis Απόστολος Δοξιάδης was born in Brisbane Australia in 1953 and grew up in GreeceAlthough 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 Pratiue des Hautes Études in Paris working on mathematical models for the nervous systemAfter 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 FestivalSince 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 EnglishApart 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 GödelIn 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 uest for the foundations of mathematics Logicomix was published in Autumn 2009 by Bloomsbury in the US and the UKApart 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 2010Apostolos lives in Athens with his wife the novelist Dorina Papaliou and their children