Keys to Infinity

CLIFFORD A. PICKOVER, Ph.D., is the author of numerous popular science and mathematics books including Chaos in Wonderland and Mazes for the Mind. He is also the lead columnist for the "Brain Boggler" section in Discover magazine. He is a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and his work in computer science has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers including The Washington Post, Wired, The Christian Science Monitor, Omni, and Science News. For his computer graphics work, he received first prize in the 1990 Beauty of Physics Competition.

Partial table of contents:; Too Many Threes; Ladders to Heaven; Infinity Machines; Grid of the Gods; To the Valley of the Sea Horses; Infinite Chess; The Loom of Creation; Slides in Hell; Alien Abduction Algebra; Welcome to Worm World; Creating Life Using the Cancer Game; No Zeros Allowed; Infinite Star Chambers; Infinitely Exploding Circles; The Undulation of the Monks; The Loneliness of the Factorions; Escape from Fractalia; The Crying of Fractal Batrachion 1,489; Recursive Worlds; Chaos in Ontario; Cyclotron Puzzles; Vampire Numbers; Computers, Randomness, Mind, and Infinity; Appendices; Notes; Further Reading; Index.