Clifford A Pickover: 16 books
by Clifford A. Pickover
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments,...
The Medical Book
From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons, 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses...
by Clifford A. Pickover
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2004
Do a little armchair space travel, rub elbows with alien life forms, and stretch your mind to the furthest corners of our uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, you don't have to be an astronomer to explore the mysteries of stars and their profound meaning for human existence. Clifford...
Surfing through Hyperspace
Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2001
Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the all-but-unfathomable...
The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clifford Pickover briefly recounts in this enthralling book, the most comprehensive in decades on magic squares, Emperor Yu was supposedly strolling along...
Time
A Traveler's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1999
"Bucky Fuller thought big," Wired magazine recently noted, "Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." In his newest book, Cliff Pickover outdoes even himself, probing a mystery that has baffled mystics, philosophers, and scientists throughout history--What...
by Clifford A. Pickover, Piers Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
An ecological disaster spawns an eight-legged sea monster in this collaboration between the science fiction author and acclaimed nonfiction writer.
Millions of readers have enjoyed the books of Piers Anthony, including (but certainly not limited to) his undeniably popular Xanth and Blue Adept...
The Loom of God
Tapestries of Mathematics and Mysticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras to the awesome mechanics of Stonehenge to the “gargoyles” and fractals on today’s computers, mathematics has always been a powerful, even divine force in the world. In a lively, intelligent synthesis of math, mysticism, and science fiction, Clifford Pickover...
Wonders of Numbers
Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2001
Who were the five strangest mathematicians in history? What are the ten most interesting numbers? Jam-packed with thought-provoking mathematical mysteries, puzzles, and games, Wonders of Numbers will enchant even the most left-brained of readers. Hosted by the quirky Dr. Googol--who resides on a remote...
A Passion for Mathematics
Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
A Passion for Mathematics is an educational, entertaining trip through the curiosities of the math world, blending an eclectic mix of history, biography, philosophy, number theory, geometry, probability, huge numbers, and mind-bending problems into a delightfully compelling collection that is sure...
by Clifford A. Pickover
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This book journeys from one far-flung topic to another to test the reader’s curiosity and powers of lateral thinking. Robert Pirsig wrote in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, “It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.” This also applies...
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and greatest work, world-renowned science writer Cliff Pickover studies such colofrul characters as Truman...
The Math Book
From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Math’s infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this follow-up to the best-selling The Science Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous...
Death and the Afterlife
A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians. This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science and sheds light into the darkness. Here, topics as wide ranging as the Maya death gods, golems, and...
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