Resumen de apostolos doxiadis biography
Apostolos doxiadis biography...
Apostolos Doxiadis
Greek writer (born 1953)
Apostolos K. Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Κ. Δοξιάδης; born 1953) is a Greek writer. He is best known for his international bestsellers Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (2000) and Logicomix (2009).
Resumen de apostolos doxiadis biography
Early life
Doxiadis was born in Australia, where his father, the architect Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis was working. Soon after his birth, the family returned to Athens in Greece, where Doxiadis grew up.
Though his earliest interests were in poetry, fiction and the theatre, an intense interest in mathematics led Doxiadis to leave school at age fifteen, to attend Columbia University, in New York, from which he obtained a bachelor's degree in mathematics.[1] He then attended the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris from which he got a master's degree, with a thesis on the mathematical modelling of the nervous system.[2] His father's death and family reasons made him return to Greece in 1975, interrupt