From Archimedes to Hawking

Listed in Mathematical Reviews 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 Listed in Mathematical Reviews 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 Listed in Mathematical Reviews 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 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 geniuseswho 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 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 inall 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 (andthe 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 geniuseswho discovered them. Pickover's pages reflect his vast knowledge ofphysics and his firm conviction that mathematics has an awesome external reality. --Martin Gardner, author of The Colossal Book of Mathematics