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"It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul."--Sofia Kovalevskaya, Recollections of Childhood, 1895 From the ingenious author of The Math Book and The Physics Book comes an inspirational volume that celebrates the beauty and wisdom of mathematics. Every page of this yearlong devotional features a witty, insightful remark about math alongside a stunning piece of art relating to mathematics, including mathematically generated art. The quotes range from Pythagoras to Feynman, from Hume to Heinlein, and provide thought-provoking ideas about our world. The calendar also includes the birthdays of notable mathematicians, so readers can see which ones share theirs. A brief biographical dictionary provides additional curiosities and information on some of the greatest mathematicians in history.
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Mathematics and BeautyExplore the mysteries of mathematics through quotations, as the adventure unfolds over 1000s of years. Images include fractals, various other forms of algorithmic art, knots, symmetries, tilings, optical illusions, tessellations, mazes, and natural forms that exhibit symmetrical patterns.
"The great equations of modern physics are a permanent part of scientific knowledge, which may outlast even the beautiful cathedrals of earlier ages."
"The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State."
"Perhaps an angel of the Lord surveyed an endless sea of chaos, then troubled it gently with his finger. In this tiny and temporary swirl of equations, our cosmos took shape."
"I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe."
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"Bucky Fuller thought big, Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." -- WIRED "A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today." -- Journal of Recreational Mathematics |
Pickover has been elected a Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for his "significant contributions to the general public's understanding of science, reason, and critical inquiry through scholarship, writing, and work in the media." Other Fellows have included Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.
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Isaac Newton,
Carl F. Gauss,
Leonhard Euler,
Bernhard Riemann,
Henri Poincare,
Joseph-Louis Lagrange,
David Hilbert,
Gottfried W. Leibniz,
Alexandre Grothendieck,
Pierre de Fermat,
Niels Abel,
Evariste Galois,
John von Neumann,
Karl W. T. Weierstrass,
Rene Descartes,
Peter G. L. Dirichlet,
Srinivasa Ramanujan,
Carl G. J. Jacobi,
Augustin Cauchy,
Hermann K. H. Weyl,
Eudoxus of Cnidus,
Georg Cantor,
Arthur Cayley,
Emma Noether,
Leonardo "Fibonacci,"
Charles Hermite,
William R. Hamilton,
Kurt Godel,
Richard Dedekind,
Pierre-Simon Laplace,
Blaise Pascal,
Felix Christian Klein,
Jean le Rond d'Alembert,
Elie Cartan,
Gaspard Monge,
Godfrey H. Hardy,
Andrey N. Kolmogorov,
Jacques Hadamard,
Jacob Bernoulli,
Carl Ludwig Siegel,
Hermann G. Grassmann,
Joseph Liouville,
Julius Plucker,
F.E.J. Emile Borel,
Joseph Fourier,
Stefan Banach,
Ferdinand Eisenstein, and more...
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"My primary interest is finding new ways to continually expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor.
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The Mathematics Devotional
Clifford A. Pickover is a prolific author, having published
more than forty books, translated into over a dozen languages, on topics ranging from science
and mathematics to religion, art, and history. He received his PhD from Yale University's Department
of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, holds over 100 U.S. patents, and is an associate editor
for several scientific journals. His research has received considerable attention from media outlets ranging
from CNN and WIRED to The New York Times, and his website, www.pickover.com, has received millions of visits.