Clifford A. Pickover

American author, inventor, and popular-science writer and researcher, known for numerous books on mathematics, science, creativity, and computer-generated art; long associated with IBM Research.

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  1. 1. The Loom Of God

    Mathematical Tapestries

    A lively, wide-ranging exploration that treats mathematics as a creative language for reading the universe, weaving together visualizations, puzzles, and accessible explanations to show how symmetry, fractals, prime numbers, algorithms, and other mathematical patterns recur in nature and human culture; the book invites readers to appreciate the aesthetic and philosophical implications of these patterns, suggesting that number and form act like a tapestry underlying physical reality and human thought while offering striking examples and thought experiments to spark curiosity.

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