Love & Love Only

I love you as my own body
I thank God for bringing you into my life

I fall at your feet
I hear your voice
I hold your hands
I caress you gently
I adore your dimple
I massage your legs
I wrap you in my arms
I listen to your heart beat
I kiss you all over the face
I rest my face on your body
I feel comfort in your embrace
I admire the colour of your eyes
I run my hands through your hair

I share my life with you
I partake in your happiness
I join you in your struggles
I aspire to be more than a friend to you

I apologize for hurting you
I hope to improve myself
I try to tame my tongue
I am willing to change

I miss you, milady
I seek you, sweetheart
I bide my time, beloved
I dwell in my thoughts about you, dear
I wait to meet you soon, wife of my youth
I love you, LOVE

Logicomix

This article is a summary of the book Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth, written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou.

1. Pembroke Lodge: Russel's struggle in comprehending the illogical world (forbidden fruit of knowledge, religious studies, stern grandmother, faith) and finding solace in the logical mathematics (axioms, proofs, theorems, ...)

2. The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Russel breaks loose from the shackles of his strict religious upbringing and becomes an atheist. Russel embarks on a quest for rationality, reasoning, truth and knowledge about the world. However, Russel finds himself in turmoil over the state of mathematics (unproved axioms, circular definitions) and philosophy (disagreement among philosophers). Russel is introduced to logic and works of Boole (Boolean laws). Russel's mission is now to put the house of Mathematics "Queen of the Sciences" in order.

3. Wanderjahr:  Russel goes to the Continent and meets with Gottlob Frege who dreamed of a new logical language to serve as the foundation of mathematics, and (the insane) George Cantor who developed set theory. Russel attends the 1900 ICM Paris in which there are two schools of thought led by Henri Poincaré (proponent of human intuition) and David Hilbert (proponent of mathematical proofs, reasoning and logic).

4. Paradox: Russel discovers the paradox related to definition of sets (the supposed foundation of logic and mathematics), and publishes it in the `Principles of Mathematics.' Russel and Whitehead collaborate on Principia Mathematica, a planned set of three books to create a new foundation of mathematics. The authors struggled a lot while working on the manuscript, and ultimately self-publish the first volume.

5. Entr'acte: Logicians tend to confuse the abstract (Map) with the concrete (Reality).

6. Logico-Philosophical Wars: Wittgenstein begins to study under Russel. At the same time, Europe is reeling under the tension caused by the Great War. Reality confronts Russel. Wittgenstein, due to his trust in natural language, formulates the `Picture Theory,' according to which statements are meaningful only if they can be pictured in the real world. Thus, the statement "There are at least three things in the universe" is meaningless because we can't picture the universe.

7. Incompleteness: Gödel formulates his incompleteness theorem according to which some questions are unanswerable. Russel and Wittgenstein experiment with reforms in the field of education (authoritarian and anti-authoritarian respectively), but ended up as failures in practice. Russel's life (Nazism, Frege's logically-sound anti-semitic rant, WWII) teaches him that there is no royal path to truth. Instead of renouncing the old Trinity composed of Intuition, Emotion and Habit, Russel proposes the new Trinity composed of Responsibility, Justice and knowledge of Good and Evil.  

8. Finale: John von Neumann and later Alan Turing build upon the hitherto works to come up with the Turing machine and the stored-program architecture, and together they pioneer the field of computer science.

"The meaning of the world does not reside in the world." - Wittgenstein thinks to himself.

"All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world." - says Wittgenstein to Russel.

"Applying formulas is not good enough when you are faced with really hard problems." - Bertrand Russel.