Cliff Pickover

Ask me anything. I will be happy to answer some of your questions, and will try to reply to a portion of your questions below in the coming days.

Biology, Brain. A purkinje neuron from the human cerebellum. Which "God" decided this would be the best way to set up the cathedral of the mind? Credit: Hand-drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, circa 1900. Institute (CSIC), Madrid.

Mathematics. Calculus, mind expansion, symbology.

I worked at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York for my entire career. For your curiosity, this is IBM's very first patent: a perforating machine (U.S. Patent #998,631). It was filed in 1907, and was officially granted in 1911.

Mathematics. Shiver in delight. This is a prime number.

Life on the Edge. Creatures from mathematics. We are Not Alone. Experimenting with simulated ecosystems. By @spacefillerart, instagram.com/space.filler.a…, Used with permission.

“In most sciences, one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone, each generation adds a new story to the old structure.” ~ Hermann Hankel, Die Entwicklung der Mathematik, 1889

If God exists, what does He think of Conway’s Game of Life, where creatures and complex civilizations arise from the simplest of rules? Below: Machine-civilization Life-simulation by Sam Twidale, Used with permission. github.com/Tw1ddle/game-o…, experiments.withgoogle.com/conway-game-of….

Mathematics and mystery. Strange universe. Look at all the beautiful square roots, piling up like little toy soldiers, marching toward infinity, from left to right. Image sent to me by Arjen Dijksman, @materion. Source: geogebra.org/m/kkwtpzbt

“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since we cannot prove the consistency.” ~ Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times, 1972

Mathematics. The Woman, the Finger, and Aliens: A Math Puzzle That Will Make You Question Everything. "Would a space-faring extraterrestrial species have discovered the mathematical object that we refer to as the dodecahedron?"

This is a mathematics joke. Retweet if you "get" it.

Mathematics. Engineering. Physics. Non-circular gears generate irregular motions. Source: Gabriel Peyre, mathworks.com/matlabcentral/…, MATLAB Central File Exchange.

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." ~Bertrand Russell Image: Johannes Kepler, 1619.

Mathematics. What is an easy way to solve this, and what is a more complicated way to solve this? Could any US president have solved this, when he was in office?

Mathematics. Reminds me of layers of a cosmic onion. tinyurl.com/37jeac9d

Mathematics. The Number Nuisance.

Mathematics, symmetry, psychedelics. Portal to a nearby universe, infinity, and a world beyond human imagination. Visualization by @hexeosis, Used with permission, hexeosis.tumblr.com/post/189932622…

Mathematics clock. [Treat this as a puzzle. Can you find my error?] Adapted from pokedude140/redbubble, rdbl.co/3tayftB

Mathematics. The "Six six to the six" enigma.