There Is Still A Difference Between Something

The Last Level Of Metaphor In The Alice Books Is This: That Life, Viewed Rationally And Without Illusion, Appears To Be A Nonsense Tale Told By An Idiot Mathematician. At The Heart Of Things Science Finds Only A Mad, Never-ending Quadrille Of Mock Turtle Waves And Gryphon Particles. For A Moment The Waves And Particles Dance In Grotesque, Inconceivably Complex Patterns Capable Of Reflecting On Their Own Absurdity.

Mathematics Is Not Only Real, But It Is The Only Reality. That Is That Entire Universe Is Made Of Matter, Obviously. And Matter Is Made Of Particles. It's Made Of Electrons And Neutrons And Protons. So The Entire Universe Is Made Out Of Particles. Now What Are The Particles Made Out Of They're Not Made Out Of Anything. The Only Thing You Can Say About The Reality Of An Electron Is To Cite Its Mathematical Properties. So There's A Sense In Which Matter Has Completely Dissolved And What Is Left Is Just A Mathematical Structure.

As I Have Often Said, Electrons And Gerbils Don't Cheat. People Do.

As Far As I Know, Clifford Pickover Is The First Mathematician To Write A Book About Areas Where Math And Theology Overlap. Are There Mathematical Proofs Of God? Who Are The Great Mathematicians Who Believed In A Deity? Does Numerology Lead Anywhere When Applied To Sacred Literature? Pickover Covers These And Many Other Off-trail Topics With His Usual Verve, Humor, And Clarity. And Along The Way The Reader Will Learn A Great Deal Of Serious Mathematics.

The Computers Are Not Replacing Mathematicians; They Are Breeding Them.