My primary interest is finding new ways to continually expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics and other seemingly-disparate areas of human endeavor. I seek not only to expand the mind, but to shatter it.
Music
"Building a Mystery" by Sarah McLachlan, "Ashes are Burning" by Renaissance, or the fantastic percussion in Peter Gabriel's "The Feeling Begins" that was used in the movie The Last Temptation of Christ.
Books
Some of my favorite books
Passage, Connie Willis
Shibumi, Trevanian
Job, Robert Heinlein
He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse
The Story of Mankind, Hendrik Wilem van Loon
I. Asimov, Isaac Asimov
The Mist, Stephen King
Number of the Beast, Robert Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein
The Magus, John Fowles
Revelation, W. A. Harbinson
Birdy, William Wharton
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
Image of the Beast, Philip Jose Farmer
The 100: A Ranking of the 100 Most Influence People in History,
Michael Hart
Wonderful Life, Stephen J. Gould
Diaspora by Greg Egan
The Truth Machine
by James Halperin
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein's Universe by
Gary F. Moring
Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice
Menoch the Devil, Anne Rice
Why I am Not Christian, Bertrand Russell
Venus on the Half Shell, Kilgore Trout
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
In terms of pure mind-boggling concepts, such as higher dimensions, imaginative
alien life, and the future of humanity, I'd say that Diaspora by Greg Egan
is my favorite book in this department. I also found that
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle had many valuable lessons. I'm also a fan of the author,
Chuck Palahnuik.
For a wonderful book on Einstein and some ramifications of his strange theories,
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Einstein's Universe by
Gary F. Moring is great.
Books I Wrote
Archimedes to Hawking
The Heaven Virus
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality
The Mobius Strip
Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
A Passion for Mathematics
Calculus and Pizza
The Mathematics of Oz
The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars
The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience
The Stars of Heaven
Mind-Bending Puzzles
Dreaming the Future
Wonders of Numbers
The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
Cryptorunes: Codes and Secret Writing
Surfing Through Hyperspace
Time: A Traveler's Guide
Strange Brains and Genius
The Science of Aliens
Spider Legs
The Alien IQ Test
The Loom of God
Black Holes:A Traveler's Guide
Keys to Infinity
Chaos in Wonderland
Mazes for the Mind
Computers and the Imagination
Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty
Neoreality Science Fiction Series
Liquid Earth
The Lobotomy Club
Sushi Never Sleeps
Egg Drop Soup
Edited Collections
Chaos and Fractals
Fractal Horizons
Future Health: Computers & Medicine in the 21st Century
Friends, thank you very much for reading this little biography!
You can always learn more about me at my web site Pickover.Com or Blog
RealityCarnival.Com.
Clifford A. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author of over 30 highly-acclaimed books on such topics as computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, religion, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, and science fiction.
Pickover is a prolific inventor with dozens of patents, is the associate editor for several journals, the author of colorful puzzle calendars, and puzzle contributor to magazines geared to children and adults.
The Los Angeles Times recently wrote, "Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers, art and thought." Wired magazine wrote, "Bucky Fuller thought big, Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both."
Pickover's computer graphics have been featured on the cover of many popular magazines and on TV shows.
His web site, Pickover.Com, has received over 1,000,000 visits.
ever heard of these? they are quite interesting... ^_^ heres mine from a cpl days ago... i wonder what colors yours would be? you should get a reading done!! :) XO ~tine
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. --Albert Einstein
