Apostolos Doxiadis

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Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) (b. 1953 in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia) and raised in Greece is a Greek writer.

In his earliest years he was drawn to mathematics. At age 15 in 1968, he attended Columbia University in New York City. He later attended École Pratique des Hautes Études, literally the Practical School of Higher Studies, in Paris where he studied mathematical models for the nervous system.

Later, Doxiadis returned to his love of the theatre and entered into the filmmaking industry. For a few years, he worked as an actor and in 1983 he filmed his first movie Underground Passage. His second movie was Terirem, for which he won Best Works and Filmography in 1988 at the Berlin Film Festival.

The mid-1980s began a prolific period for Doxiadis. He wrote four novels including Parallel Life (Παράλληλη Ζωή) in 1985, Macbeth (Μακαβέττας Parallili Zoi) in 1988, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Ο θείος Πέτρος και η Εικασία του Goldbach (Γκόλντμπαχ) O Theios Petros kai i Eikasia tou-), an international bestseller, in 1992 and The Three Little Men (Τα τρία ανθρωπάκια Ta Tria Anthropakia) in 1997. All four works were written in Greek.

Doxiadis, fluent in Greek and English, translated Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture into English in 2000. He also wrote an autobiography titled What's In A Name.

He has acted in his own musical theatre works, such as The Tragic History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist and in a movie named Paralipomena. He also wrote a play Incompleteness, the subject of which is the theorems of Kurt Gödel and the latter part of the mathematician's life.

In recent years, Doxiadis has written other mathematically-themed novels, as well as a philosophical novel titled Paramathematics about Greek history and culture.

He has also translated plays from English into Greek, including Romeo and Juliet (Ρομέος και Ιουλιέτα), Hamlet (Άμλετ), both by Shakespeare, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill.

Today, as of 2005, Doxiadis works on a graphic novel, Logicomix, with Christos Papadimitriou, a Computer Science professor from the University of California, Berkeley. The series examines the history of mathematics, the 20th century, and, self-referentially, the lives of the authors and the history of the project's creation.