There is an interesting "book" review in the NY Times which is titled "Algorithm and Blues". The book it reviews is a comic book or, as the cool kids might call it, graphic novel about "the quest for logical certainty in mathematics". It has Bertrand Russell, Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, Henri Poincare, David Hilbert, Alfred North Whitehead, and World War II. The review can be read at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/books/review/Holt-t.html?pagewanted=all
The title of the book is "Logicomix" and can be pre-ordered on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-Search-Truth-Apostolos-Doxiadis/dp/1596914521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254143038&sr=8-1 or http://tinyurl.com/y94n2xp (the book is released tomorrow, Sept 29). Can psychologists expect similar treatment in the "sequential art" form? Whom would be good candidates? John B. Watson? His rise and fall in academic psychology and then rise and plateau in advertising might make interesting reading (especially with the "Mad Men" interest). Of might it be William James, starting off with him at a seance? Or Henry Goddard and how he coined the termed "moron" and his support of eugenics? I am sure folks have their personal favorites that would like to see on the paneled page. I'm waiting for one on Sir Ronald Fisher, a complex, flawed man who made a number of significant contributions. Hard to know whether one should love or hate the man. Busy, busy, busy. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
