Clifford A. Pickover
Clifford Alan Pickover ( born August 15, 1957) is an American author of popular books on mathematics and natural sciences, and science journalist.
Biography
Pickover studied at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster (Pennsylvania) and graduated in 1982 at Yale University in biochemistry ( structure determination of proteins by X-rays ). Since 1982 he has been at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. First, as a scientist in speech synthesis (and the development of a graphics workstation for language studies TUSK ), later. Than the editor of the IBM Journal of Research and Development
He had long a mathematical column in "Discover Magazine" and has a column in the magazine " Odyssey " in which he is also co-editor. He is co-editor of " Computers and Graphics". He is the author of numerous technical articles and popular science books, which often methods of computer graphics can be applied to a wide variety of areas. He also holds numerous patents. Pickover also wrote science fiction books and his popular science books, initially mostly patterns in mathematics and natural as with fractals of different kinds and in the chaos physics, often later turned to frontier areas of science and religion.
In mathematics and recreational mathematics, for example, Pickover Stalks fact - Orion - numbers (fact orion ) and juggling sequences ( Juggler Sequences ) are ( a configuration in the Mandelbrot set ) to him and vampire figures, named by him.
Writings
Non-fiction
German editions:
- With the eyes of the computer. Fantastic worlds from the spirit of the machine, the market and technology 1992.
- Alien IQ Test, Ullsteinhaus TB 1999.
- Mathematics and the Divine, spectrum 1999.
- Dr. Googols wondrous world of numbers, Diederichs 2002 DTV 2005.
- The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th dimension. 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics, Bielo 2013. ISBN 978-90-8998-280-3.
English editions:
Every year he publishes the calendar Mind -bending puzzles.