Introduction and Backdrop ; Part I: 250 B.C. 1700 ; Part II: 1700 1800 ; Part III: 1800 1900 ; Part IV: 1900 and Beyond ; Final Comments on the Beauty of Mathematics in Physics ; The Great Contenders ; References ; About the Author
Clifford A. Pickover is the author of forty books on such topics as computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, religion, medical mysteries, and science fiction. Pickover is a prolific inventor with over forty patents, is the associate editor for several journals, and puzzle contributor to magazines geared to children and adults. He lives outside New York City.
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"Pickover inspires a new generation of da Vincis to build unknown
flying machines and create new Mona Lisas." -- Christian Science
Monitor
"The ploymathic Clifford Pickover discusses 'landmark laws of
nature that were discovered over several centuries and whose
ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and
understanding.'" -- Kendrick Frazier, Skeptical Inquirer
"A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most
creative, original thinkers in the world today." -- Journal of
Recreational Mathematics
"The incomparable Clifford Pickover has written another rich
science narrative that t once informs and entertains. There is no
one writing today with such an encyclopedic knowledge of all things
scientific, and Archimedes to Hawking covers the gamut of what is
arguably the most important topic in all of science - the laws of
nature. Are they discovered or invented? Do they correspond to
things out in the world or only to thoughts inside our heads?
These and numerous other tantalizing questions are answered as
Pickover takes us through a brief history of nearly everything in
the universe (and the universe itself)." -- Michael Shermer,
Skeptic
"A ride through the history of world-changing scientific ideas.
Pickover pays homage to the great minds who have laid bare the
mathematical machinery whirring just beneath the skin of reality.
An impressively researched tour de force." --Marcus Chown, author
of The Quantum Zoo
"Clifford Pickover has brilliantly succeeded in a monumental task.
He has explained, in his usual lucid style, some forty of the
greatest laws of physics, and sketched the lives and often
eccentric personalities of the geniuses who discovered them.
Pickover's pages reflect his vast knowledge of physics and his firm
conviction that mathematics has an awesome external reality."
--Martin Gardner, author of The Colossal Book of Mathematics
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