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Apostolos Doxiadis was born in 1953 in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in Athens. After studying mathematics at Columbia, where he went on a scholarship at the age of fifteen and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, he took up writing. His novel, Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture, has been translated into thirty languages and is considered to have pioneered the genre of mathematical fiction. In addition to four novels, he has also written two screenplays, a play, Incompleteness, and written, designed and directed a shadow puppet musical, “The Tragical History of Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionist.”
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