Apostolos Doxiadis

Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek Απόστολος Δοξιάδης, born 1953 in Brisbane, Australia) is a Greek writer.

Life and work

Doxiadis grew up in Greece and studied in 1968 at Columbia University and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris applied mathematics (among other things, he worked on mathematical models of the nervous system ). He then returned back to Greece, directed in the theater and also appeared as an actor. In 1983 he made ​​his first Greek movie ( underground passage ).

For his second film Terirem of 1986, he won the 1988 award of the International Center for Artistic Cinema ( CICAE ) at the Berlin Film Festival. He also wrote novels, Parallel Lives, 1985, Macbeth 1988, his bestseller Uncle Petros and Goldbach's conjecture in 1992 (which he translated into English even in 2000, it has been translated into 30 languages ​​), and The Three Little People 1997 ( all in Greek). He wrote an autobiography and for the musical theater ( The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, for puppet shadow theater in 1999 ) and theater ( The 17th Night, 2006, about the last days of Kurt Godel, listed in Athens).

He also translated William Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill into Greek. In 2008, the comic tale Logicomix appeared with the Californian computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou on the history of mathematical logic. He is working on a book about mathematics and the art of storytelling with the mathematician Barry Mazur ( 2009).

Doxiadis is married, has three children and lives in Athens.

Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture

In this novel, is about a former mathematical " Wunderkind" Papa Petros Christo's dedicated his life to the solution of a very difficult notorious mathematical conjecture ( Goldbach 's conjecture ), although it fails but is still happy with it.

Writings (selection )

  • Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture ( " Uncle Petros and Goldbach 's conjecture "). Luebbe Verlag, Bergisch -Gladbach, 2001, ISBN 3-785-70951- X.
  • Logicomix. An epic search for truth ( " Logicomix "). Atrium -Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85535-069-8. (Excerpt from Marjorie Senechal and to meet Mathematics and Narrative in Mykonos working with Doxiadis organized in Mathematical Intelligencer, 2006, No. 2 )
  • Greek economy. In: Lettre International, LI 94, Autumn 2011, pp. 25-29.
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