Contact |
News! |
Books |
Home |
"My primary interest
is finding new ways to continually expand creativity by melding art, science,
mathematics and other seemingly-disparate areas of human endeavor. I seek
not only to expand the mind, but to shatter it." Books Published: 50 Patents granted: 600 34,000 Twitter Followers Follow me on Twitter Here are some of my other publications. Book covers below. |
|
I have published most often with publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, John Wiley & Sons, St. Martin's Press, Basic Books, Prometheus, Palgrave, Sterling, imprints of William Morrow, and various publishers now owned by Perseus. |
"Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." -- The New York Times
"Dr.
Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limits
of computers, art, and thought."
"Bucky Fuller thought big, Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." -- WIRED "Pickover inspires a new generation of da Vincis to build unknown flying machines and create new Mona Lisas." -- Christian Science Monitor |
"Add two doses of Isaac Asimov, and one dose each of Martin
Gardner and Carl Sagan, and you get Clifford Pickover, one of the most
entertaining and thought provoking writers of our time.
-- Michael Shermer, Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine |
Would you like to return to Cliff Pickover's main page?
Personal tips for aspiring writers. Pickover books at Amazon.Com See international language translations here See poster showing all book covers. |
|
Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History
From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks
|
|
|
The Science Book
From Darwin to Dark Energy
|
|
|
Death and the Afterlife
A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection
|
|
|
The Physics Devotional
Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Physics |
|
|
The Mathematics Devotional
Celebrating the Wisdom and Beauty of Mathematics |
|
|
Fractal 3D Magic
Groundbreaking 3D showcase. Includes 3D glasses. |
|
|
New, Improved, and Updated for Kindle!
Monsters lurk in the deep. |
|
|
Mind-bending puzzles to make your brain sharper, quicker, and more skillful!
What's more important to you & your kids' success than effective critical thinking?
|
|
|
From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension,
250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics Fractals, Rubik's Cubes, Infinite Monkey Theorem... |
|
|
Rebuilding the Third Temple
Orthodox Jews are disappearing from Jerusalem, |
|
|
"Mathematics is the loom upon which God
weaves the fabric of the universe." Tapestries of Mathematics and Mysticism |
|
|
Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them
22 Centuries of Discovery |
|
|
What are ultimate spiritual technologies for the 22nd century? What would it be like to live in an Age of Electronic Gods? A novel inspired by virtual universes making headlines today! |
|
|
Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection |
|
|
A Gateway to Higher Dimensions |
|
|
Explore Science, Culture, and Reality |
|
|
Explore Mathematics & Reality
|
|
|
Delicious fast food for the mind that makes learning calculus as easy as eating a slice Calculus and Pizza A Math Cookbook for the Hungry Mind |
|
|
What can we know about reality?
The Neoreality Science-Fiction Series |
|
|
Numbers, Fun Puzzles, Logic, IQ, Problems beyond Imagination The Mathematics of Oz Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge |
|
|
What can we know about God?
The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience |
|
What is mystical about mathematics?
The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles and Stars An Exhibition of Surprising Structures Across Dimensions |
|
The Stars of Heaven
Why are we here? Where did we come from? Is the Universe designed? Are black holes portals to other universes? |
|
Dreaming The Future The Fantastic Story of Prediction "Clifford A. Pickover is the heir apparent to Carl Sagan: no one else does better popular science writing than Pickover. Dreaming the Future is an engrossing exploration, compulsively readable and wonderfully entertaining." -- Robert J. Sawyer, author of Calculating God |
|
Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Math, Mind, and Meaning |
|
Several Recent Pickover Books | |||||
|
The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits | Cryptorunes: Secret Codes | Surfing Through Hyperspace | Strange Brains and Genius | |
The Science of Aliens | Time: A Traveler's Guide | Spider Legs | Chaos & Fractals | The Loom of God | |
Black Holes: A Traveler's Guide | Keys to Infinity | The Alien IQ Test | Fractal Horizons | The Pattern Book | |
Click here for detailed information on some of the older Pickover books. |
Click here to see complete list of Cliff Pickover's "Mind-Bending Visual Puzzle Calendars and Cards". The perfect gifts. |
New! 2001 Reprint edition of Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty:
Graphics from an Unseen World. Click cover to learn more. |
Other Recent Pickover Books | |
Pickover books at Amazon.Com in separate window. Click on Book Title for more information. | |
Cryptorunes
Codes and Secret Writing |
The Girl
Who Gave Birth to Rabbits A True Medical Mystery |
Surfing
Through Hyperspace
Understanding Higher Universes in 6 Easy Lessons |
The
Science of Aliens Are humans alone? |
Strange
Brains and Genius Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists & Madmen |
Time:
A Traveler's Guide
The mystery of time travel... |
Chaos
and Fractals
Lots of color figures... |
Spider
Legs
Science-fiction novel with Piers Anthony. Strange things are born in the ocean's depths. Description? Click here to see Piers and me at our island retreat. |
The
Loom of God
Mathematics, God, physics, & religion... Description? |
The
Alien IQ Test
Are we up to the challenge? Description? |
Black
Holes - A Traveler's Guide
Description? |
Fractal
Horizons - The Future Use of Fractals
Fractals for the next 100 years. Description? |
Keys
to Infinity
The mystery & beauty of infinity & big numbers. Description? |
Future
Health
Computers and medicine in the 21st century. Description? |
Mazes
for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected
Strange puzzles, technologies, art, creativity. Description? |
Chaos
in Wonderland - Visual Adventures in a Fractal World
Journey with the inhabitants of a fractal kingdom. Description? |
Computers,
Pattern, Chaos and Beauty - Graphics from an Unseen World
Computers and the search for beautiful patterns. Description? |
Computers
and the Imagination - Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge
Speculations, games, art, puzzles & visual wildness. Description? |
Visions
of the Future - Art, Technology, and Computing in the 21st Century
On fractals, robots, war, computer art, and more... Description? |
Visualizing
Biological Information
Computer graphics for detecting meaning in DNA... Description? |
Frontiers
of Scientific Visualization
Tools for finding structure in the world around us. Description? |
Mit den Augen des Computers Description? |
Spiral
Symmetry
On amazing spirals in nature, art, mathematics, literature, and more. Description? |
The
Pattern Book - Fractals, Art, and Nature
Recipes for beauty and complexity from around the world. Description? |
Computers,
Chaos, Fractals
Japanese translation of Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty Description? |
Click here for even more information on the Loom of God.
Some of the books are available in Italian, German, Japanese,
Greek,
Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, and Polish translations.
I enjoy collecting some of the cover images of my foreign language translation books,
which I happen to find at random while browsing the web...
Click this button to see a gallery of wild and wonderful
covers for some of the international editions of my books.
One of my favorites is the Portuguese cover
of the The Alien IQ Test, which you can see by clicking this cover.