Logicomix is a graphic novel fictionalized biography of Bertram Russell - but complete with a detailed explanation of the quest for a logically consistent foundation of mathematics - culminating in Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem.

As an undergraduate math major and a graduate student in math, I had a general idea of all this, and reading it now, I appreciated the specifics and the introduction to the people (all white men) who worked on those foundations. Something about having it all laid out in a graphic novel helped me understand the people and their quest and the interactions.

The story isn't necessarily a pretty one. Russell had four wives, and the first one was given a "rest cure" after she realized he was falling in love with his best friend's wife. I'm not sure I appreciated all the talk of mathematicians, or at least logicians, being prone to insanity, nor the dismissal of the children of logicians who had schizophrenia. But these were real people's lives and that shows they didn't clean it up for the twenty-first century.

So I do think those who will find the book most interesting are those who are interested in the quest for a provable foundation of mathematics - and how that quest was stymied. But I am one of those people, and I enjoyed this book.