Apostolos Doxiadis is a Greek writer born on June 6, 1953, in Brisbane, Australia. He is known internationally for his bestsellers, Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (2000) and Logicomix (2009).

Despite being intrigued by fiction and the arts from a young age, Doxiadis developed a profound interest in mathematics, leading him to Columbia University in New York at the mere age of fifteen. He further pursued graduate studies in Applied Mathematics at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, focusing on mathematical models of the nervous system.

Returning to Greece, Doxiadis rekindled his passion for writing, cinema, and theater. He directed professionally for the theater and ventured into filmmaking with his debut film Underground Passage in 1983. His second film, Terirem (1986), garnered the International Center of Art Cinema prize in Berlin in 1988.