Apostolos Doxiadis (Greek: Απόστολος Δοξιάδης) (b. 1953 in Brisbane, Queensland in Australia) and raised in Greece is a Greek writer. 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the state of Queensland, Australia. ... Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. ... Famous Greeks or Greek-speaking/writing people, in alphabetical order. ...

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. Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... The École Pratique des Hautes Études is a university in Paris, France. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and also stops input from the senses, and initiates actions. ...

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. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII in Roman) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the World. ...

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. The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... This article is about the year. ... Scene from Macbeth, depicting the witches conjuring of an apparition in Act IV, Scene I. Painting by William Rimmer This article is on the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII in Roman) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII in Roman) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

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. Musical theatre (sometimes, although less often than not, spelled theater rather than theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... The Book of Chronicles is a book in the Hebrew Bible (also see Old Testament). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In mathematics and related technical fields, a mathematical object is complete if nothing needs to be added to it. ... Kurt Gödel Kurt Gödel [kurt gøːdl], (April 28, 1906 Brno, Czech Republic –January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics. ...

In recent years, Doxiadis has written other mathematically-themed novels, as well as a philosophical novel titled Paramathematics about Greek history and culture. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article covers the Greek civilization. ... Greece is often referred to as the cradle of Western civilisation and ancient Athens was considered to be its center. ...

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. The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, commonly referred to as Romeo and Juliet, is a play by William Shakespeare concerning the fate of two young lovers who would do anything to be together. ... The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his best-known and most oft-quoted plays. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Mourning Becomes Electra is the title for a trilogy of plays by Eugene ONeill, first performed in 1931. ... Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. ...

Today, as of 2005, Doxiadis works on a graphic novel, Logicomix, with Christos Papadimitriou, a Computer Science professor from the University of California at 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. A graphic novel (GN) is a long-form comic book, usually with lengthy and complex storylines, and often aimed at more mature audiences. ... Christos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California at Berkeley. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... The word mathematics comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthema) which means science, knowledge, or learning; μαθηματικός (mathematikós) means fond of learning. Today, the term refers to a specific body of knowledge - the rigorous, deductive study of quantity, structure, space, and change. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

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• http://www.greece.gr/CULTURE/Literature/ApostolosDoxiadisProfile.stm
• http://www.authortrek.com/apostolos_doxiadis_page.html
• http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/default.asp?id=811&section=2 - bloomsbury.com
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  • http://www.gfc.gr/3/31/film_gr.asp?id=234
  • http://www.in.gr/ath/theater/suggest.asp?fle=dream - in.gr
  • http://alex.eled.duth.gr/academy/filoi.htm
  • http://www.doxiadis.org/page/default.asp?la=1&id=9