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Clifford A. Pickover is an author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, and science fiction. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Science For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ...
Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Education
He received his Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. Pickover graduated first in his class from Franklin and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in three years. He is currently a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ...
Franklin and Marshall College is a four-year private co-educational liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ...
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The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for the IBM Research Division. ...
Author He is the author of over thirty books on such topics as computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, and science fiction. Pickover is an inventor with dozens of patents, the author of puzzle calendars, and puzzle contributor to magazines geared to children and adults. His Neoreality science-fiction series explores the fabric of reality and religion. A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping it except through quantum tunnelling behaviour (known as Hawking Radiation). ...
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or composition of matter (substance) (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and...
His books have been translated into French, Greek, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Polish and Spanish.
Editor and columnist He is currently an associate editor for the scientific journal Computers and Graphics and is an editorial board member for Odyssey and Leonardo.
He is also the Brain-Strain columnist for Odyssey magazine, and, for many years, he was the Brain-Boggler columnist for Discover magazine. Discover Magazine is a science magazine that publishes articles about science. ...
Bibliography - Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves, Smart Publications, 2005 ISBN 1890572179
- A Passion for Mathematics, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 ISBN 0471690988
- Calculus and Pizza, John Wiley & Sons, 2003 ISBN 0471269875
- The Mathematics of Oz, Cambridge University Press, 2002 ISBN 0521016789
- The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars, Princeton University Press, 2002 ISBN 0691115974
- The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience, St. Martin's Press, 2002 ISBN 1403964572
- The Stars of Heaven, Oxford University Press, 2001
- Mind-Bending Puzzles (calendars & cards), Pomegranate, each year
- Dreaming the Future, Prometheus, 2001
- Wonders of Numbers, Oxford University Press, 2000
- The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Prometheus, 2000
- Cryptorunes: Codes and Secret Writing, Pomegranate, 2000
- Surfing Through Hyperspace, Oxford University Press, 1999
- Time: A Traveler's Guide, Oxford University Press, 1998
- Strange Brains and Genius, Quill, 1999
- The Science of Aliens, Basic Books, 1998
- Spider Legs, TOR, 1998 (with Piers Anthony)
- The Alien IQ Test, Basic Books, 1997
- The Loom of God, Plenum, 1997
- Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide, Wiley, 1996
- Keys to Infinity, Wiley, 1995
- Chaos in Wonderland, St. Martin's Press, 1994
- Mazes for the Mind, St. Martin's Press, 1992
- Computers and the Imagination, St. Martin's Press, 1991
- Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty, St. Martin's Press, 1990 ISBN 0486417093
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- Liquid Earth, Lighthouse Press, 2002
- The Lobotomy Club, Lighthouse Press, 2002
- Sushi Never Sleeps, Lighthouse Press, 2002
- Egg Drop Soup, Lighthouse Press, 2002 ISBN 0971482799
Edited collections - Chaos and Fractals, Elsevier, 1998
- Fractal Horizons, St. Martin's Press, 1996
- Future Health: Computers & Medicine in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 1995
- Visualizing Biological Information, World Scientific, 1995
- The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature, World Scientific, 1995
- Visions of the Future: St. Martin's Press, 1993
- Frontiers of Scientific Visualization, Wiley, 1994
- Spiral Symmetry, World Scientific, 1992 (editor) ISBN 9810206151
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