Mathematician:Clifford Alan Pickover
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Mathematician
American mathematician whose main research area is fractals.
Also a prolific popular writer on several topics.
Discoverer of the Keith numbers $129 \, 572 \, 008$ and $251 \, 233 \, 297$.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: August 15, 1957
Theorems and Definitions
- Pickover Stalk
- Pickover Biomorph
- Vampire Number
- Leviathan Number
- Factorion
- Batrachion
- Juggler Sequence
Publications
- 1987: Biomorphs: Computer Displays of Biological Forms Generated from Mathematical Feedback Loops (Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 5, no. 4: pp. 313 – 316)
- 1990: Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty
- 1991: Computers and the Imagination
- 1992: Mazes for the Mind
- 1994: Chaos in Wonderland
- 1995: Keys to Infinity
- 1996: Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide
- 1997: The Alien IQ Test
- 1997: The Loom of God
- 1998: Spider Legs (with Piers Anthony)
- 1998: The Science of Aliens
- 1998: Time: A Traveler's Guide
- 1999: Strange Brains and Genius
- 1999: Surfing Through Hyperspace
- 2000: Cryptorunes: Codes and Secret Writing
- 2000: The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
- 2000: Wonders of Numbers
- 2001: Dreaming the Future
- 2001: The Stars of Heaven
- 2002: The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
- 2002: The Mathematics of Oz
- 2002: The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience
- 2002: Liquid Earth
- 2002: The Lobotomy Club
- 2002: Sushi Never Sleeps
- 2002: Egg Drop Soup
- 2003: Calculus and Pizza
- 2005: Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
- 2005: A Passion for Mathematics
- 2006: The Mobius Strip
- 2007: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
- 2007: The Heaven Virus
- 2008: Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them
- 2009: Jews in Hyperspace
- 2009: The Loom of God
- 2009: The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
As editor
- 1992: Spiral Symmetry
- 1993: Visions of the Future
- 1994: Frontiers of Scientific Visualization
- 1995: Future Health: Computers & Medicine in the 21st Century
- 1995: The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature
- 1995: Visualizing Biological Information
- 1996: Fractal Horizons
- 1998: Chaos and Fractals
- Every year: Mind-Bending Puzzles (calendars & cards)
Notable Quotes
- Mathematics is the hammer that shatters the ice of our unconscious.
- -- Epigraph to A Passion for Mathematics, $2005$: Numbers, History, Society, and People
Also known as
If you ever see references to Dr. Francis O. Googol, this is an alias of Clifford Alan Pickover.