ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clifford A. Pickover is a prolific author, having published more than fifty books, translated into over a dozen languages, on topics ranging from science and mathematics to religion, art, and history. He received his PhD degree from Yale University, has been granted more than 600 U.S. patents, and has more than 34,000 Twitter followers. His patents are owned by a wide variety of companies, including IBM, Ebay, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, Paypal, LinkedIn, and many more. His website, Pickover.com, has had millions of visitors.

When describing his work, creativity, and sense of wonder, The New York Times wrote, “Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality.” According to WIRED, “Bucky Fuller thought big, Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both.” The Christian Science Monitor proclaimed: “Pickover inspires a new generation of da Vincis to build unknown flying machines and create new Mona Lisas.”