The Loom of God bridges the gulf that has so long divided mathematics and religion. In a blend of science, science fiction, history, and dazzling computer imagery, I help the reader understand mystical relationships between numbers, God, and the mathematical fabric of our universe. From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras, to the awesome mechanics of Stonehenge, to the fearsome gargoyles and glorious fractals created on the computer screens of today, I explain the power of numbers and their connection with the search for the ultimate meaning and Apocalypse of the universe.
"As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics." - Martin Gardner
"Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times." - Ivars Peterson, Science News, Author of "The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics"
"Chock-full of mathematical treats, The Loom of God takes you on a trip which explores ideas in a totally non-threatening, enjoyable format. Entertaining and informative adventure of Pickover's fictional characters -- Theano and Mr. Plex -- bring to life such things as: the golden mean, spirals in hyperspace, the Inca quipus, string theory, the wild and diverse world of numbers. A must for the I-hate-math person as well as the mathematical explorer." - Theoni Pappas, author of The Joy of Mathematics
"Pickover has done it again, with a marvelously entertaining, historical romp through the unexpected connections between mathematics and mysticism." - Paul Hoffman, President/Editer-in-Chief, Discover magazine
"Without peer as an idea machine, Cliff Pickover proves equally adept at writing, The Loom of God is a well-crafted piece of mathematical science fiction." - Charles Aschbacher, Book Review Editor, Journal of Recreational Mathematics
"If you ever doubted that science and religion have commonality, this is the book for you. In The Loom of God, Cliff Pickover, in his irrepressible style, frolics through a forest of mathematical curiosities and historical tidbits, all skillfully woven into a futuristic fantasy, leaving you to wonder where he learned all that." - Julien C. Sprott, Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Here is the book's Table of Contents:
1 Are Numbers Gods?
2 The End of The World
3 Pentagonal Numbers
4 Doomsday: Friday 13, November, A.D. 2026
5 666,666, Gnomons, and Oblong Numbers
6 St. Augustine Numbers
7 Perfection
8 Turks and Christians
9 The Ars Magna of Ramon Lull
10 Death Stars, a Prelude to August 21, 2126
11 Stonehenge
12 Urantia and 5,342,482,337,666
13 Fractals and God
14 Behold the Fractal Quipu
15 The Eye of God
16 Number Caves
17 Numerical Gargoyles
18 Astronomical Computers in Canchal de Mahoma
19 Kabala
20 Mathematical Proofs of God's Existence
21 Eschaton Now
22 Epilogue
Postscript 1. Goedel's Mathematical Proof of God's Existence
Postscript 2. Mathematicians Who Were Religious
Postscript 3. Author's Musings
Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies
Notes
References
About the Author
The Alien IQ Test is an irresistibly addictive book for anyone whose juices flow when presented with baffling puzzles, and dizzying array of graphic brainteasers, all devised (if you dare to believe) by aliens who have arrived to assess our intelligence in such far-flung areas of the human mind as abstract reasoning, mathematics, religion, morality, and humanity's concept of beauty.
"If pop culture (the Hollywood blockbuster Independence Day, hit TV shows like the X-Files and Third Rock from the Sun) is a prophet to be trusted, aliens may soon outnumber humans on this planet. Fortunately... a manual will ease the strain of forced introductions. The strange, symbolic transmissions we've received from outer space (haven't we?) are collected by Clifford Pickover in THE ALIEN IQ TEST: ARE WE UP TO THE CHALLENGE? The problems, puzzles, and questions in this Basic Books title are intended to assess human intelligence -- making this a quiz we simply mustn't fail." -- Publisher's Weekly, January 20, 1997, p. 346
"Clifford Pickover is many things -- scientist, scholar, author, editor, and visionary -- and so it may surprise some that he seems to be embracing the shadowy world of alien visitation and abduction. Yet the man OMNI magazine recently described as "Van Leeuwenhoek's 20th century equivalent" has just written a book titled THE ALIEN IQ TEST that is filled, in his own words, with "strange looking puzzles... from another world -- a world where small gray beings visit us only at night." Perhaps in subtle jest, perhaps in utter seriousness, Pickover would have us believe that this illustrated collection of mindbenders came to him in a dream (or was it a dream?), and is a "universal standard" by which some extraterrestrial civilization is judging our basic intelligence and capacity for logic. GAMES is pleased to provide an advance sample (direct from a secret government installation, under the tightest security) of the puzzles contained therein, to allow you to test your cosmic awareness." - Games magazine, April, 1997, pg 48.
Book's Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1. Who This Book is For
Chapter 2. Symbols and Difficulty Levels
Chapter 3. Alien Tiles
Chapter 4. Alien Sperm
Chapter 5. Alien Ellipses
Chapter 6. Alien Repeats
Chapter 7. Alien Matrix
Chapter 8. Internal Organs
Chapter 9. Alien Dissection
Chapter 10. Alien Addition
Chapter 11. Hyperdimensional Sz'kwa
Chapter 12. Alien Spiral
Chapter 13. Survival on Arcturus
Chapter 14. Alien Medallion with Lights
Chapter 15. The Omega Prism
Chapter 16. Alien Worm
Chapter 17. Alien Homoptera
Chapter 18. Star Chart
Chapter 19. Alien Spores 1
Chapter 20. Alien Spores 2
Chapter 21. Alien Spores 3
Chapter 22. Alien Spores 4
Chapter 23. Alien Spores 5
Chapter 24. Rubik's Tesseract
Chapter 25. Animal Eye
Chapter 26. Cosmic Rosetta Stone
Chapter 27. Alien Ants in Hyperspace
Chapter 28. A Severed Human Finger
Chapter 29. The Antikythera Mechanism
Chapter 30. Alien Scrambling
Chapter 31. Alien Aesthetics
Chapter 32. Alien Knowledge and Talent
Chapter 33. The Sagittarius Maneuver
Chapter 34. Siriusian Geometry
Chapter 35. Human Brains in a Jar
Chapter 36. Human Belief Structure
Chapter 37. Contact from the Pleiades
Chapter 38. The Elk Hunter's Abduction
Chapter 39. Loss of Scientific Knowledge
Chapter 40. Aliens and Sprinklers
Chapter 41. Unanswered Questions
Chapter 42. Moral and Emotional Choices of Humans
Chapter 43. Coded Transmission
Solutions
For Further Reading
About the Author
"That he gets his ideas from aliens while sleeping is the most plausible explanation I've heard of how Cliff Pickover keeps coming up with these thought-provoking questions and engaging riddles." - Julien C. Sprott, Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The most original -- and challenging -- puzzle book for years. Clifford Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us." - Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, and author of Nature's Numbers
"If earthly problems and puzzles have become too mundane for you -- match wits with those in Pickover's new and literally far out The Alien IQ Test. Another ingenious twist by a master of puzzles and brainteasers." - Theoni Pappas, author of The Joy of Mathematics and The Mathematics Calendar
Fractal horizons is a practical guide to exploring the
inexhaustible reservoir of magnificent shapes, images, and ideas
associated with fractals. From art poster designs to educational
tools, computer-generated fractals patterns' usage is booming.
Fractal Horizons gives an account of the state of the art and
speculates on advances in the future. Contributors explore the
challenges of using fractals in education, art, music, fashion, chess,
medicine, and more. Filled with beautiful images, an intriguing array
of artistic and scientific topics, and computer/mathematical recipes,
the book will appeal to anyone fascinated by unusual ideas and
optically provocative art.
Six broad sections: Fractals in Education,
Fractals in Art, Fractal Models and Metaphors, Fractals in Music and
Sound, Fractals in Medicine, and Fractals and Mathematics. Topics
include: challenges of using fractals in the classroom,
new ways of generating art and music, the use of fractals
in clothing fashions of the future, fractal holograms, fractals in
medicine, fractals in boardrooms of the future, fractals in chess.
Book Table of Contents:
Preface
PART I. FRACTALS IN EDUCATION
PART II. FRACTALS IN ART
PART III. FRACTAL MODELS AND METAPHORS
PART IV. FRACTALS IN MUSIC AND SOUND
PART V. FRACTALS IN MEDICINE
Part VI. FRACTALS AND MATHEMATICS
What if you could actually travel to the very edge of a black
hole? What would it look like? How close could you get before you
were "sucked in"? If you were, could you ever get back out? In Black
Holes, A Traveler's Guide, you take off on a mind-boggling journey to
the ultimate frontier of fact-based scientific speculation. The
book's premise finds you the captain of a spaceship who, along with
your first mate, probes the mysteries of the most interesting and
elusive objects in the universe.
The book has an appendix with computer recipes in C and
BASIC so you can become your own Black Hole explorer.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1. How to Calculate a Black Hole's Mass
Chapter 2. The Black Hole's Event Horizon Circumference
Chapter 3. Black Hole Tidal Forces
Chapter 4. A Black Hole's Gravitational Lens
Chapter 5. A Black Hole's Gravitational Blueshift
Chapter 6. Gravitational Time Dilation
Chapter 7. Anatomical Dissection of Black Holes
Chapter 8. Embedding Diagrams for Warped Spacetime
Chapter 9. Gravitational Wave Recoil
Chapter 10. Optical Appearance of a Collapsing Star
Chapter 11. Gravitational Distension Near a Black Hole's Heart
Chapter 12. Quantum Foam
Chapter 13. Black Hole Recreations
Chapter 14. Mathematical Black Holes
Chapter 15. Black Holes Evaporate
Chapter 16. Wormholes, Cosmological Doughnuts, and Parallel Universes
Postscript 1. Could We be Living in a Black Hole?
Postscript 2. The Grand Internet Black Hole Survey
Author's Musings
Smorgasbord for Computer Junkies
What can we know about numbers too large to compute and even
imagine? Do the tiny bubbles in the froth of a milkshake actually
form an infinite fractal pattern? What are apocalyptic numbers and
recursive worlds? These and dozens of equally beguiling mathematical
mysteries, problems and paradoxes fill this mind-bending book.
Here is the book's Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Too Many Threes
Japanese translation by Morikita Shuppan.
Chinese translation by Triumph Publishing, Republic of China.
Chaos in Wonderland presents a creative blend of science fiction,
mathematics, astronomy, and computer graphics to introduce you to
chaos science -- the science behind many intricate and unpredictable
patterns in mathematics and nature. To make your journey more
interesting, the storyline describes the biology, sociology, and
technology of creatures living on the moon of Jupiter. Their heads
are composed of semiconductor materials that enable them to spend
their days in contemplation of beautiful mathematical patterns created
by chaos. Status in their society is determined by the beauty of
their fractal dreams.
Mazes for the Mind takes you on a roller-coaster ride through the
unpredictable and exciting universe of computers, games, puzzles,
mazes and computer art. In chapters such as "My Computer Esophagus,"
"The Cro-Magnon Conquest Game," "Feminism and Fractals," and "Lava
Lamps in the 21st Century," I cover topics dealing with strange music,
the fourth dimension, time travel, strange technologies, and weird
numbers.
"Pickover's dazzling array of tortuous mind-benders and arcane minutiae
delights and surprises. It's easy to get trapped in his enticing
labyrinth of seductive mental games."
In this book, I examine the manifold ways in which computers
transform how we both perceive and understand the world
around us. Computers and the Imagination includes a range of topics
from artificial spider webs, to pain-inducing patterns, to comptuer-
generated poetry. Along the way, I use the computer to gain new
insights into the very origins of human creativity. The book includes:
computer graphics, strange problems, and startling applications of
computer science to art, music, poetry, science, and technology.
Loaded with stunning computer-generated images, I attempt to
reveal an entirely new way of seeing. Topics include: computers and
creativity; lateral thinking; hidden patterns in nature, music,
genetics and sounds; musical snowflakes, fractal speech, the Shroud of
Turin, genesis fractals, biomorphs, chaos, synthesizing nature,
cellular automata, ornamental patterns, symmetry, mathematics and
beauty, and much more.
"Chaos and fractals are revolutionary topics these days as they find
increasing applications in science, pure mathematics, and computer
graphics. Dr. Clifford Pickover, long at the center of this cyclone,
has produced a truly stunning survey of its manifold consequences. No
informed layperson, artist, scientist, or mathematician
should pass up the experience of stepping through the
portals of this beautiful book into the fantastic new worlds that
computers are now exploring in the way a telescope or microscope
explores the awesome wonders of nature." - Martin Gardner,
Scientific American
From the tiny twisted DNA molecules in all living cells to
gargantuan curling arms of many galaxies, the physical world contains
a startling repetition of spiral patterns. This book presents
aesthetically appealing and scientifically interesting patterns from a
range of scientific, historical, and artistic realms. Topics include:
spirals in nature, mythology, mathematics, art, history, literature, biology,
physics, chemistry, botany, crystallography, astronomy, and fractal
geometry.
"The Form, Function, and Synthesis of Seashells",
Mike Cortie, Raad vir Mineraal Tegnologie, South Africa.
"Spiral Galaxies", Bruce Elmegreen, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,
USA.
"Does the Golden Spiral Exist?", Arthur Loeb, Harvard University,
USA.
"On the Origins of Spiral Symmetry in Botany", Roger Jean,
University of Quebec, Canada.
"Sunflower Quasicrystallography", L. Bursill, University of
Melborune, Australia.
"Broken Symmetry and the Formation of Spiral Patterns in Fluids",
Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, UK.
"Spiral Helmet", Eleanor Kent (high-tech artist), USA
"Spinning Descartes into Blake: Spirals, Vortices, and the Dynamics
of Deviation", Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University, USA
"Dynamic Spirals", Arun Hoden, The University, Leeds, UK.
"Spiral Map Projections", Agnes Denes (artist), USA.
"Spirals in Nature and Myth", Jay Kapraff, N.J. Institute of Technology
"Pythagorean Spirals", E. J. Eckert
"Spiral-Based Self-Similar Sets", K. Wicks
"Symmetry and Spirals in Art", R. Newman
"Spiral Structures in Julia Sets and Related Sets", M. Michelitsch and O. E. Roessler
The Evolution of a Three-armed Spiral in the Julia Set, and Higher
Order Spirals", A. G. Davis Philip
"Autonomous Organization of a Chaotic Medium into Spirals:
Simulations and Experiments", M. Markus
"Oscillations, Waves, and Spirals in Chemical Systems", E. Koros
Determination of Spiral Symmetery in Plants and Polymers",
D. Friedman
Electromagnetic Theory for Chirla Media", A. Lakhtakia
"Green Spirals", R. Dixon
This book will allow you to travel through time and space. To
facilitate your journey, I've scoured the four corners of the earth in
a quest for unusual people and their fascinating patterns. From
Mozambique, to Asia, to many European countries, the contributors to
The Pattern Book include world-famous cancer researchers, little-
known artists, and eclectic computer programmers. Some of the
patterns are ultramodern, while others are centuries old. Many of the
patterns are drawn from the universe of mathematics. Computer recipes
are scattered throughout.
The book is is organized into three main parts: "Representing
Nature" (for those patterns which describe or show real physical
phenomena, e.g., visualizations of protein motion, sea lilies, etc.),
"Mathematics and Symmetry" (for those patterns which describe or show
mathematical behavior, e.g. fractals), and "Human Art" (for those
patterns which are artistic works of humans and made without the aid of
a computer, e.g. Moslem tiling patterns).
Computers shape the way we think, imagine and remember. They
expand our imagination, allow us to create amazing new art forms, and
to dream of scientific problems never before thought possible.
Visions of the Future suggests how twenty-first century computers and
computer art will provide humankind with an unlimited landscape for
exploration and unparalleled aid for the imagination. From weather
prediction, to fractal mathematical art, to simulated golf, Visions of
the Future shows how the line between art and science in the computer
age is often indistinct.
Other topics: science
museums of the future, classrooms of the future, the future of computer
art, fractals and genetics, and much more.
The Virtual Science Center: "A Museum of Everything that Could be
Imagined", Dawn Friedman
The Future of Student Computer Use, William J. Joel
Forging a Career as a Sculptor from a Career as a Computer Programmer,
Stewart Dickson
The Future of Weather and Climate Prediction, Thomas T. Warner and
Bill Buzbee
Computers and Human Communication, Davis Albert Foulger
The Universal Robot, Hans Moravec
Materials Science: One Morning in the Year 2079, B. David Silverman
Current Techniques and Development of Computer Art, Franz G. Szabo
Computer War Games in the 21st Century, James J. Perry
Will Computers Really Think in the 21st Century?, Ira Glickstein
Fractals and Genetics in the Future, H. Joel Jeffrey
Electronic Storytelling in the 21st Century, Judy Malloy
Using Artificial Intelligence to Control Traffic, Carlos David Nassi
Molecular Biology and Futuristic Problem Solving, Mels Sluyser and Erik
Sonnhammer
Studying Prehistory with Tomorrow's Computers, D. G. East
Computers and Future Golf, Anthony S. Akins
Artificial Life: Answering the Question of Emergence, William R. Buckley
The Future of Ambiguous Art, Peter Hettich
Beyond Art, Paul Brown
Explore the art and science of making the unseen workings of
nature visible. Fluid flow, fractals, plant growth, genetic
sequencing, the configuration of distant galaxies, virtual reality,
artistic inspiration... these are a few of the many unseen phenomena
that can be made visible through the power of personal computers. This
book explores the many ways in which computers are now used as tools
for simulation, art and discovery.
Here is the book's Table of Contents:
Scientific Visualization of Fluid Flow
Visualization of Scroll Waves
Visualization of Chemical Gradients
Visualization of Biological Information Encoded in DNA
Visualizing Droplet Coalescence Phenomena
Computer Simulation of Plant Growth
Scientific Display: A Means of Reconciling Artists and Scientists
Architecture and Applications of the Pixel Machine
Brave New Virtual Worlds
Biological data of all kinds is proliferating at an incredible
rate. If humans attempt to read such data in the form of numbers and
letters, they will take in the information at a snail's pace. If the
information is rendered graphically, however, human analysts can
assimilate it and gain insight much faster. The emphasis of this book
is on the novel graphical and musical representation of information-
containing sequences, such as DNA and amino acid sequences, to help
us find hidden pattern and meaning.
Certainly many difficulties arise when all this massive information
has to be understood or represented in some way. Visualization
techniques originate to overcome these problems and to allow the
disclosure and identification of interesting or useful "patterns" in the
sequences.
The book consists of the editor's preface and a collection of 15
contributions written in scientific journal style by experts on the
subject. There are two impressive colour plates and many black a nd
white illustrations and diagrams and all the contributions include a
"glossary" to clarify some of the scientific terms to the readers The
preface is an introduction to visualization, its objectives and
examples. It includes about 10 pages of literature references on
computational biology, computers and DNA, genetics and music, genetics
and fractals, and visualization. There is also a comprehensive list of
genetic and biological data repositories with Internet addresses, a
list of electronic newsgroups (BIOSCI), a list of USENET newsgroup s
addresses, and other Internet resources of interest.
The chapters deal with a variety of problems such as graphical
representations to disclose "patterns", whether a sequence is "random"
or not, taxonomical classifications, how to represent the 3-dimensional
structure of proteins in two dimensional space and how to quantify
similarities between sequences. Some of the contributions go beyond
the description of the algorithms and methods and include computer code.
For example "A Transforming Function for Generation of Fractal
Functions from Nucleotide Sequences by J. Campione-Piccardo has a
Pascal implementation of his method of barograms. Gene Music: Tonal
Assignments of Bases and Amino Acids by N. Mukata and K. Hayashi is a
paper describing DNA to musical notes transform that may help to make
sequences more comprehensible. Their chap er includes 3 music scores
produced from DNA data and a script for "Hypercard" and "HyperMIDI 2.0"
(Macintosh computer). Some of the algorithms to "visualise" the
sequences are in principle simple and at the same time very powerful;
with some computer skills one may be able to reproduce or implement the
methods described.
Who is this book for? I think that it will be of interest to a
broad range of readers, from biochemists to molecular biologists,
computer and computer graphics scientists. It may also appeal to
computer enthusiasts as some of the algorithms described may also be
applied to other symbolic sequences such as texts or codes. The type of
graphic representations shown in the book may not be esthetically as eye
catching as so me graphical rendering in the previous titles by Pickover
(The Pattern Book or Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty) but we must
not forget that the main purpose of the book is to present techniques to
make sense out of biological data, while beauty is in the eye of the
beholder.
This book considers the tremendous effect that computers will have
on medicine in the next century. Topics include: the challenges of
future medical schools in preparing physicians in the 21st century,
the use of new medical imaging technologies, the use of electronic
gophers to obtain medical information, digital dentistry, the use of
artificial intelligence in medical diagnoses, futuristic operating
rooms, computer conferences for medical consulting, the future of
computers in pathology, robot surgeons, and more....
Here is the book's Table of Contents
Preface
PART I. MANAGING INFORMATION AND SERVICE
Chapter 1.
Preparing Future Physicians: How will Medical Schools Meet the Challenge?
Chapter 2.
Just How Many Patients Can Fit in an Exam Room?
Chapter 3.
Computers and Medicine: Advancing the Field
The Future of Computer Conferencing for Medical Consulting
Chapter 5.
The Impact of Gophers on Biomedical Science
PART II. TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
Chapter 6.
The Future of Computers in Pathology
Chapter 7.
Bloodless Robotic Surgery
Chapter 8.
Medical Images Made Solid
Chapter 9.
Computer-Assisted Dental Care: Dentistry Goes Digital
Chapter 10.
Medical Imaging and the Futures of Computers in Medicine
Chapter 1. Conquering the Math Bogeyman - William Beaumont
Chapter 2. The Fractal Curriculum - David Fowler
Chapter 3. Fractals and Education: Helping Arts Students to See Science
- Michael Frame
Chapter 4. The Computer Artist and Art Critic - J. Clint Sprott
Chapter 5. The Future of Fractals in Fashion - Danielle Gaines
Chapter 6. Knight Life - Ronald Brown
Chapter 7. One Metaphor Fits All: A Fractal Voyage with Conway's
Audioactive Decay - Mario Hilgemeier
Chapter 8. Sponges, Cities, Anthills, and Economies - Tim Greer
Chapter 9. Fractal Holograms - Douglas Winsand
Chapter 10. Boardrooms of the Future: The Fractal Nature of Organizations
- Glenda Eoyang and Kevin Dooley
Chapter 11. Fractal Music - Manfred Schroeder
Chapter 12. Using Strange Attractors to Model Sound - Jonathan Mackenzie
Chapter 13. Pathology in Geometry and Geometry in Pathology
- Gabriel Landini
Chapter 14. Fractal Statistics: Toward a Theory of Medicine - Bruce West
Chapter 15. Fractals and the Grand Internet Parallel Processing Project
- Jay R. Hill
Chapter 16. Self-Similarity in Quasi-Symmetrical Structures - Arthur Loeb
Chapter 17. Fat Fractals in Lyapunov Space
- Mario Markus and Javier Tamames
Glossary
- The Editors of Amazon.Com
- Science News, May 25, 1996 149(21): 322.
- "Space, sex, and sums", by Hazel Muir, New Scientist, May 25, 1996
- P. Patton, "Curved Light", WIRED magazine,
June 1996, 4.06 page 130-131.
- Martin Gardner
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Marc Hairston, Hanson Center for Space Sciences
- Ian Stewart, Author of "Does God Play Dice?"
- Ivars Peterson, Math/Physics Editor, Science News
Author of Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System
Chapter 2. Ladders to Heaven
Chapter 3. Infinity Machines
Chapter 4. Infinity World
Chapter 5. Grid of the Gods
Chapter 6. To the Valley of the Sea Horses
Chapter 7. The Million-Dollar, Trillion-Digit Pi Sequencing Initiative
Chapter 8. Infinite Chess
Chapter 9. The Loom of Creation
Chapter 10. Slides in Hell
Chapter 11. Alien Abduction Algebra
Chapter 12. The Leviathan Number
Chapter 13. Welcome to Worm World
Chapter 14. Fractal Milkshakes and Infinite Archery
Chapter 15. Creating Life Using The Cancer Game
Chapter 16. No Zeros Allowed
Chapter 17. Infinite Star Chambers
Chapter 18. Infinitely Exploding Circles
Chapter 19. The Infinity Worms of Callisto
Chapter 20. The Undulation of the Monks
Chapter 21. The Fractal Golden Curlicue is Cool
Chapter 22. The Loneliness of the Factorions
Chapter 23. Escape from Fractalia
Chapter 24. Are Infinite Carotid-Kundalini Functions Fractal?
Chapter 25. The Crying of Fractal Batrachion 1,489
Chapter 26. Ramanujan, Infinity, and The Majesty of the Quattuordecillion
Chapter 27. Recursive Worlds
Chapter 28. Chaos in Ontario
Chapter 29. Cyclotron Puzzles
Chapter 30. Vampire Numbers
Chapter 31. Computers, Randomness, Mind, and Infinity
Appendix - Longer Computer Programs
Color Plates
- The Irish Times, 1996
- Ivars Peterson, author of The Mathematical Tourist,
Math/physics editor, Science News
- Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine
- Theoni Pappas, author of The Joy of Mathematics
- Dr. Julien C. Sprott, author of
Strange Attractors: Creating Patterns in Chaos
- Ian Stewart
- Martin Gardner, Scientific
American
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Rudy Rucker, author of The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and The Mind
- Ivars Peterson, Science News,
author of The Mathematical Tourist
"The ultimate crustacean encounter.
Strange things are born in the ocean's depths."
"Pickover has collaborated on a novel with the prolific
Piers Anthony, and the combination of Pickover's theory
and Anthony's fantasy should yield an intellectual tour
de force without precedent." - West Coast Review
of Books
"...Provocative scientific speculation and detail."
- Publisher's weekly.
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- "Return with us now to the Sci-Fi days of yesteryear; with monsters
from the deep, vacationing professors from prestigious institutions,
damsels in distress, and science gone mad in an orgy of bloodshed
terrorizing a Newfoundland fishing village! ...You'll definitely get
a kick out of this." - SFRevu
-"Shades of Peter Benchley! Spectacular..." - BookPage
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- Book News
- Hassan Aref, Richard Charles, and Todd Elvins
- Mario Markus and Manfred Krafczky
- Theo Plesser, Wolfgang Kramarczk, and Sefan Muller
- Eugene Hamori
- Paul Meakin, Cliff Pickover, and Fereydoon Family
- Philippe de Reffye
- Jean-Francois Colonna
- Michael Potmesil and Eric Hoffert
- David Weimer
- Dr. Gabriel Landini, Fractal Report
Preface
- Clifford A. Pickover
A Picture of the Genetic Code
- Rosemarie Swanson and Stanley Swanson
Graphic Representations of Amino Acid Sequences
- Ann Williams, Kelly D. Chenault, and Ulrich Melcher
Representing Protein Sequence and Three-Dimensional Structure in Two Dimensions
- Rosemarie Swanson
Visual Display of Sequence Conservation as an Aid to Taxonomic
Classification Using PCR Amplification
- Peter K. Rogan, Joseph J. Salvo, R, Michael Stephens, and
Thomas D. Schneider
Perceptible Features in Graphical Representation of Nucleic Acid Sequences
- Jacques Ninio and Eduardo Mizraji
Representations of Protein Patterns From 2D Gel Electrophoresis
Databases
- Peter K. Lemkin
A Protein Visualization Program
- D. A. Kuznetsov and H.A. Lim
Gene Music: Tonal Assignments of Bases and Amino Acids
- Nobou Munakata and Kenshi Hayashi
Diagrammatic Representation of Base Composition in DNA Sequences
- Chun-Ting Zhang
A Transforming Function for the Generation of Fractal Functions from
Nucleotide Sequences
- Jose Campione-Piccardo
Visualization of Open Reading Frames in mRNA Sequences
- Perry B. Hackett, Mark W. Dalton, Darrin P. Johnson, and Melvin R.
Duvall
Visualization of Protein Sequences using the 2D Hydrophobic Cluster
Analysis Method (HCA)
- Michel T. Semertzidis, Etienne Thoreau, Anne Tasso,
Bernard Henrissat, Isabelle Callebaut, and Jean Paul Mornon
Diagnosis of Complex Patterns in Protein Sequences
- T. K. Attwood and D. J. Parry-Smith
RNA Folding and Evolution
- Kenji Yamamoto and Hiroshi Yoshikura
Representation of Biological Sequences Using Point Geometry
Analysis
- Y. K. Huen
Index
- H. W. Wallace, CHOICE, May 1996, 33(9).
- David Kaufman, Ed.D., Director, Medical Education Unit
- Ms. Grace Paterson, M.Sc., Coordinator, Medical Informatics
Dalhousie University
- Risa B. Bobroff
- Ronda H. Wang
Baylor College of Medicine
- Christopher Galassi, MD, MS
Methodist Hospital of Indiana
- W. R. Klemm, DVM, Ph.D
- J. R. Snell, DVM, MS
Department of Veterinary Anatomy and Public Health
Texas A&M University
- Tim Littlejohn, Ph.D.
Department de Biochimie
Universite de Montreal
- Gabriel Landini, Dr. Odont, PhD
- John W. Rippin, PhD. FRC Path.
Oral Pathology Unit
The University of Birmingham
- John R. Adler, M.D.
- Achim Schweikard, Ph.D.
Dept of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Institut fur Informatik, Technische Universitat Munchen
- Peter J. de Jager and Johan W.H. Tangelder
Delft University of Technology
- Allan G. Farman, PhD (odont.), MBA
Professor, Radiology & Imaging Sciences Division
- William C. Scarfe, BDS, MS
School of Dentistry
University of Louisville
- Michael de la Maza,
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Deniz Yuret,
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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