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Apostolos Doxiadis
Biography
Apostolos Doxiadis was born in 1953 in Australia where his father, the architect Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was working . The family soon returned to
Athens. He took an interest in literature and mathematics and went to Columbia University where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He continued his mathematical studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. After his father’s death in 1975 he returned to Greece where he returned to his earlier love of literature. He wrote novels, graphic novels and stage plays and both wrote and directed films. He has also translated plays by Shakespeare and O’Neill into Greek. He has also written on narrative and mathematics.
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Two articles by Apostolos Doxiadis in The Guardian<
What comic books have in common with Brecht< (article by Doxiadis)
Interview
Bibliography
(Only works published in English)
1992 Ο Θείος Πέτρος και η Εικασία του Γκόλντμπαχ (Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture) (novel)
1999 Alfred Hoos’Shadow play The Tragical history of Jackson Pollock : abstract expressionist as performed in Athens, in 1999, by his disciple annis Philaretos (with Katerina Koskina)
2009 Logicomix (with Christos Papadimitriou)
2012 Circles Disturbed: The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative (with Barry Mazur)
2016 Three Little Pigs (novel)