![]() He was arrested on 12 November 2010, also by military police, but released two days later, and finally exempted from military service on medical grounds. As a pacifist, he declared his conscientious objection, and demanded to be exempted from military service. Maikel Nabil Sanad is a political activist and blogger, and in April 2009 he founded the " No to Compulsory Military Service Movement". ![]() He could be tried any day, and could be sentenced to three years in prison. ![]() ![]() According to him, Maikel Nabil Sanad is presently detained for 15 days pending an investigation on charges of " insulting the military institution and publishing false news about it" and " disturbing the public security". His friends and family were able to organise a lawyer, Mr Haithem Muhammaden from the El Nadeem Centre, who was able to attend an investigation session with Maikel Nabil Sanad. He was only able to call his brother on the next day, to inform him of his arrest. According to information received by War Resisters’ International, Maikel Nabil Sanad was arrested in his home in the Ain Shams neighbourhood if Cairo at about 10pm on 28 March 2011 by military police. It boils down to this: “Life is greater than logic.() War Resisters’ International, the international network of pacifist and antimilitarist organisations with more than 80 affiliates in more than 40 countries, is concerned about the arrest of Egyptian pacifist and conscientious objector Maikel Nabil Sanad, 25, from Cairo. In “a beguiling coda,” we even get a satisfying answer. The authors raise the profoundly troubling question of whether Russell’s search for abstract certainty was, in itself, a form of madness. The spooked thinker slaved for the next decade alongside Alfred North Whitehead on Principia Mathematica, an impenetrable tome that famously includes a 362-page proof that 1+1=2. It didn’t bother most mathematicians much, though it did spell doom for his own life’s work. The “one serious misstep” the authors make is that they overestimate the significance of Russell’s paradox. It also doesn’t quite get the math right, said Jim Holt in The New York Times. The authors lightly mock Russell’s agony by portraying this quest “as if the fate of the world depended on it,” and he were a superhero who “must battle his inner demons to achieve the task.” But though they have fun at their protagonist’s expense, their book “never trivializes the philosophy or mathematics.” “Who shaves the barber? If he doesn’t shave himself he shaves himself, and if he shaves himself he doesn’t shave himself.” While most of us would consider this “an amusing quirk of language,” it badly derailed Russell. “Contradiction is a fatal bullet wound for any logical system,” and Russell spent years trying to puzzle out the problem. Imagine a town where a barber is required to shave all men who do not shave themselves. “Russell’s paradox” turns on the puzzling nature of self-referential statements. What tripped up Russell’s search was a seemingly innocuous logic puzzle he discovered in 1901, said Alex Bellos in the London Guardian. Bertrand Russell, the British “logician, philosopher, mathematician, reformer, pacifist, activist, jailbird and chronic womanizer,” was nearly driven around the bend by his decades-long hunt for the unshakable principles upon which all math and science were built. But don’t let that “put you off.” The creators of Logicomix, an “extraordinary” and extraordinarily unlikely international best-seller, have placed a compelling protagonist at the center of this richly rewarding philosophical drama. The quest for a logical foundation to mathematics might seem too arid a subject for a 350-page book, let alone a 350-page comic book, said John Walsh in the London Independent.
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