Clifford A. Pickford, Author, Clifford A. Pickover, Author St. Martin's Press $32.95 (426p) ISBN 978-0-312-08165-2
``Welcome to my computer zoo,'' writes Pickover ( Computers and the Imagination ), a salutation that at some point during his tour of more than 200 ``mind mazes'' begins to seem increasingly worthy of Lewis Carroll's Mad Queen or Mary Shelley's Dr....
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author . Palgrave $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-29411-3
Pickover, an inventor, computer artist and professional puzzler (who has edited brainteaser columns for both Discover
and Odyssey), invites readers on a paradoxical and sometimes merely quirky exploration of logical and psychological puzzles...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author . Thunder's Mouth $26 (244p) ISBN 978-1-56025-826-1
The Möbius band is a puzzlingly twisted strip of paper joined at the ends with, remarkably, only one side. It was discovered separately in 1858 by German mathematicians August Ferdinand Möbius and Johann Benedict Listing. As Pickover (Calcu
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author Prometheus Books $24.98 (232p) ISBN 978-1-57392-794-9
This is the engrossing story of Mary Toft, a young 18th-century Englishwoman who sought to make some money by inserting parts of rabbits into her vagina and pretending to expel them from her uterus. The case was celebrated at the time--popular poems
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author Oxford University Press, USA $55 (272p) ISBN 978-0-19-513006-5
Hyperbeings have kidnapped the president! Prolific Discover magazine columnist Pickover (Time: A Traveler's Guide, etc.) alternates expositions of math, physics and geometry with episodes of instructional science fiction while showing interested...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author Prometheus Books $32.98 (400p) ISBN 978-1-57392-895-3
Maybe it was fated that Pickover (The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits; etc.), a polymathic researcher and professional observer of the weird, would eventually write about the mysteries of divination; his 20-some popular books cover subjects as...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author St. Martin's Press $29.95 (394p) ISBN 978-0-312-04123-6
Computer graphics reveal hidden relationships in complex systems, make confusing data understandable and provide scientists and mathematicians with a tool for discovery and problem-solving. Featuring 200 black-and-white computer images and eight...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author St. Martin's Press $29.95 (419p) ISBN 978-0-312-06131-9
Art and science are conflated in Pickover's new discipline of ``scientific visualizations,'' demonstrated here in a colorful sampler for math hobbyists and puzzle fans, containing computer-generated palindromes, Fibonacci-based structures,...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author St. Martin's Press $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-10743-7
The weakest part of this book is the second section, which details the ``science fictional'' journey of an aspiring ``modern Schliemann'' named Garth (and his obligatory beautiful, young assistant Kalinda) through various adventures and encounters...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author Oxford University Press, USA $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-19-512042-4
If you thought time travel was just for science fiction nuts, think again. As Pickover (Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide) demonstrates, time travel is not the stuff of Asimovian dreams, it being theoretically possible. Of course, how to travel...
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Clifford A. Pickover, Author Basic Books $28.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-306-45784-5
Filled with 200 years of eccentric geniuses, this delightful collection of profiles assembles an eclectic and fascinating sampling of scientists (as well as some artists and writers) with a far-ranging assortment of phobias, compulsions, odd belief...
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