books by Clifford Pickover     books:     Clifford Pickover      Time: A Traveler's Guide Clifford A. Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Quantum Physics Can Be Fun An outstanding book - I have never before read a book that dealt with such advanced concepts that was so easy to read and comprehend and as hard to put down (I read it in a weekend). Dr. Pickover's style of making the first half of each chapter a sci-fi story, with ...             Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them Clifford Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 From Archimedes to Hawking and Everyone Between This is Dr. Pickover's first scientific book since his A Beginner's Guide to Immortality and The Mobius Strip writings of 2006. After over a year of pursuing science fiction, the author has provided us with a work that was worth waiting for. This is his best yet. ...             The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and ... Clifford Pickover Basic Books, 2006 A Magical Trip with "The Mobius Strip" Permit me to rave about "The Mobius Strip." Then buy it, read it, and enjoy its many flavors. Math buffs will find it as mouth-watering as a bowl of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. The aesthetically inclined will be delighted by its initial simplicity and the helpful ...             Surfing Through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons Clifford A. Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 What would four dimensional beings look like? Great science is about answering interesting questions and great science writing is about making those selfsame answers accessible to the public. It is in this latter regard that Charles Pickover succeeds admirably in answering the question posed at the beginning ...             The Science Of Aliens Clifford Pickover Basic Books, 1999 Never Mess with the Little Guy About a third of the thickness of a standard novel (but still 276 pages of information before you get to the notes and index sections), Dr. Pickover has done a magnificent job. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy this book. A lot of the stuff I had known about, but he ...             A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality Clifford A. Pickover Wiley, 2005 Marvellous collection of curious math facts Clifford A. Pickover's book A Passion for Mathematics is a marvellous collection of curious math facts that is sure to please lovers of Recreational Mathematics everywhere. Pickover's book is filled with math curiosities that will enchant all those with a genuine ...             Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning Clifford A. Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 A delightful collection of mathematical puzzles This book contains a delightful collection of mathematical puzzles in the tradition of Martin Gardner. There are Klingon Paths, Hexagonal Cats, Messages from the Stars, and Doughnut Loops. If you liked the puzzles in Pickover's "Alien IQ Test", you will like the ...             A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection Clifford Pickover Basic Books, 2006 The Gardens of Gilgamesh In "Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves" Cliff Pickover revealed a side of his personality that was well-camouflaged in his first thirty some-odd books on mathematics, time travel, fractals, aliens, patterns, puzzles, God, etc. Indeed, writing so many books in such a short ...             Sex, Drugs, Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence Clifford A. Pickover Smart Publications, 2005 A book about everything (almost) for everybody (almost) The title of this review is of course facetious. It's not about everything, but it is about everything that ultimately matters: human beings and the ways they imagine the world and create it; and re-imagine the world and re-create it. In this book, Clifford Pickover ...             Calculus and Pizza: A Math Cookbook for the Hungry Mind Clifford A. Pickover Wiley, 2003 Great Fun. Great Education. I can only say that this was the most educational math book I have read, and I liked it for all the reasons the author gives: (1) Many beginner calculus books are too big. Most people don't read big books. However, this book is a comfortable size. (2) Many "popular" ...             The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions Clifford A. Pickover Princeton University Press, 2002 Diverse collection A magic square is an array of numbers in which the sums of numbers in rows, columns, and diagonals are equal. A magic square uses consecutive numbers from 1 to N. Here's an example, 4 9 2 3 5 7 8 1 6 This book is different from all others I've seen on the subject, ...             Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a Fractal World Clifford A. Pickover Palgrave Macmillan, 1995 Very creative and educational The beautiful images and creative ideas set this book apart from most others on the subject of fractals, chaos, and computer art. There are endless ideas for experimentation. An excellent and fun introduction to chaos for a wide variety of readers. You will really ...             The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge Clifford A. Pickover Cambridge University Press, 2007 Math Puzzles from another Universe! I found the puzzles and problems in this book to be original and varied, and with a wide range of difficulty levels. I enjoyed the fact that some puzzles might actually have more than one answer, which leaves room for healthy debate and for better understanding the ...             The Heaven Virus Clifford Pickover Lulu.com, 2007 A great mathematical novel The Heaven Virus joins The Parrot's Theorem and Iceberg Risk on the short list of first-rate novels with deep mathematical cores. While Pickover has a lot to say about reality, time, religon, language, brains and minds, these ideas whirl randomly around the one ...             Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide Clifford A. Pickover Wiley, 1997 Happy trails.... The term "black hole" was coined by the Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler. What, exactly, a black hole is (if there even is such a thing) has been a source of debate and confusion for decades. Clifford Pickover inserts you as the main character of this ...          products you might be interested in search for books extraordinary, immortality, psychedelics, resurrection, transcendence, understanding randomly chosen book: Mentalization-based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: A ...