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Just read a cool comic book on the "Foundational Quest" in mathematics. - fredtoast - 08-14-2022 Actually it was a graphic novel. Logicomix is based on the story of the so-called "foundational quest" in mathematics, or the attempt to reduce mathematics to logic instead of just "accepting" certain axioms. The narrator is supposed to be Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest logicians of the 20th century and author of Principia Mathematica.  The book is set at a speech Russell gave during WWII and weaves his life story into the tale of the quest. A parallel tale, set in present-day Athens, records the creators’ disagreement on the meaning of the story. It is on the one hand a tragedy of the hubris of rationalism, which descends inextricably on madness, and on the other an origin myth of the computer.