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about the author
Clifford A. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Molecular
Biophysics and Biochemistry. He graduated first in his class from Franklin
and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in
three years. He is author of the popular books The Science of Aliens (Basic Books,
1998), Strange Brains and Genius (Plenum, 1998), Time: A Traveler's Guide
(Oxford University Press, 1998), The Alien 7Q Test (Basic Books, 1997), The Loom
of God (Plenum, 1997), Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide (John Wiley & Sons,
1996), and Keys to Infinity (Wiley, 1995). He is also the author of numerous other
highly acclaimed books including Chaos in Wonderland: Visual Adventures in a
Fractal World (1994), Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected (1992),
Computers and the Imagination (1991) and Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty
(1990), all published by St. Martin's Press—as well as the author of over 200 articles
concerning topics in science, art, and mathematics. He is also coauthor, with
Piers Anthony, of Spider Legs, a science-fiction novel recently listed as Barnes &
Noble's second best-selling science-fiction title.
Pickover is currently an associate editor for the scientific journals Computers
and Graphics, Computers in Physics, and Theta Mathematics Journal, and is an editorial
board member for Odyssey, Speculations in Science and Technology, Idealistic
Studies, Leonardo, and YLEM. He has been a guest editor for several scientific journals.
He is the editor of Chaos and Fractals: A Computer-Graphical Journey (Elsevier,
1998), The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature (World Scientific, 1995),
Visions of the Future: Art, Technology, and Computing in the Next Century (St. Martin's
Press, 1993), Future Health (St. Martin's Press, 1995), Fractal Horizons (St.
Martin's Press, 1996), and Visualizing Biological Information (World Scientific,
1995), and coeditor of the books Spiral Symmetry (World Scientific, 1992) and
Frontiers in Scientific Visualization (John Wiley & Sons, 1994), Dr. Pickover's primary
interest is finding new ways to continually expand creativity by melding art,
science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor.
The Los Angeles Times recently proclaimed, "Pickover has published nearly a
book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers, art and thought." Pickover
received first prize in the Institute of Physics' "Beauty of Physics Photographic
Competition." His computer graphics have been featured on the covers of many
popular magazines, and his research has recently received considerable attention by
the press—including CNN's "Science and Technology Week," The Discovery
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