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PICKOVER  \nJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.  \nA Passion for Mathematics  \nWorks by Clifford A.  Pickover  \nThe Alien IQ Test Black Holes: A Traveler’s Guide Calculus and Pizza Chaos and Fractals Chaos in Wonderland Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty Computers and the Imagination Cryptorunes: Codes and Secret Writing Dreaming the Future Egg Drop Soup  \nFuture Health Fractal Horizons: The Future Use of Fractals Frontiers of Scientific Visualization The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits Keys to Infinity  \nLiquid Earth The Lobotomy Club The Loom of God The Mathematics of Oz  \nMazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected Mind-Bending Visual Puzzles (calendars and card sets) The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature The Science of Aliens  \nSex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves Spider Legs (with Piers Anthony) Spiral Symmetry (with Istvan Hargittai)  \nStrange Brains and Genius Sushi Never Sleeps The Stars of Heaven Surfing through Hyperspace Time: A Traveler’s Guide Visions ofthe Future Visualizing Biological Information Wonders of Numbers The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars  \nA Passion for Mathematics  \nNumbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality  \nCLIFFORD A. PICKOVER  \nJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.  \nCopyright © 2005 by Clifford A. Pickover. All rights reserved  \nPublished by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada  \nIllustration credits: pages 91, 116, 137, 140, 142, 149, 150, 151, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 164, 167, 168, 169, 179, 199, 214, 215, 224, 225, 230, 274, 302, 336, 338, 341, 343, 345, and 348 by Brian C. Mansfield; 113, 114, 115, 145, 146, 332, 333, and 334 by Sam Loyd; 139 courtesy of Peter Hamburger and Edit Hepp; 141 by Stewart Raphael, Audrey Raphael, and Richard King; 155 by Patrick Grimm and Paul St. Denis; 165 and 166 from Magic Squares and Cubes by W. S. Andrews; 177 and 352 by Henry Ernest Dudeney; 200 by Bruce Patterson; 204 by Bruce Rawles; 206 by Jürgen Schmidhuber; 253 by Abram Hindle; 254, 255, 256, and 257 by Chris Coyne; 258 and 259 by Jock Cooper; 260 by Linda Bucklin; 261 by Sally Hunter; 262 and 263 by Jos Leys; 264 by Robert A. 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