of whom I was aware as a member of the Edge community, visited FmH after a search engine pointed him to a reference I made to him. He signed my guest book appreciatively, which pointed me to his homepage. Pickover, according to his Edge biography, is a research staff member at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He is the holder of more than a dozen patents dealing with computer interfaces, and he has written some twenty books on a broad range of topics, including Time : A Traveler’s Guide, Surfing Through Hyperspace : Understanding Higher Universes in Six Easy Lessons, Black Holes : A Traveler’s Guide, Future Health : Computers and Medicine in the 21st Century, Keys to Infinity, The Science of Aliens, The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience; Calculus and Pizza: A Math Cookbook for the Hungry Mind.

“Pickover’s primary interest is in finding new ways to expand creativity by melding art, science, mathematics, and other seemingly disparate areas of human endeavor”. He is the Brain-Boggler columnist for Discover Magazine; an associate editor for Computers and Graphics, Computers in Physics, and Theta (Math); and on the editorial boards of Odyssey, Idealistic Studies, Leonardo, Speculations in Science and Technology and YLEM. His site is a somewhat overwhelming departure gate for endless flights on the frontiers of science, philosophy, fringe studies, art and culture. Go.