John L. Casti

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1. John L. Casti

   Author of Paradigms Lost, Five Golden Rules : Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics -and Why They Matter, Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics

2. John D. Barrow

   Author of PI in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being, Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits, Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation

3. Clifford A. Pickover

   Author of Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty: Graphics from an Unseen World, Computers and the imagination: Visual adventures beyond the edge, The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time

4. Douglas Hofstadter

   Author of The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

5. Roger Penrose

   Author of The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

6. William Poundstone

   Author of Prisoner's Dilemma, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge, The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge

7. Gardner Dozois

   Author of The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection

8. Charles Stross

   Author of Halting State, The Jennifer Morgue, Toast

9. Ian Stewart

   Author of Nature's Numbers, The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes, Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?

10. Rudy Rucker

    Author of Infinity and the Mind, Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality, Mathematicians in Love

11. Martin Gardner

    Author of Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments, Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments

12. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Freedom Evolves, Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness

13. Stuart Kauffman

    Author of At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity, The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution, Investigations

14. Ivars Peterson

    Author of The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise, The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari

15. Keith Devlin

    Author of The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, Mathematics: The New Golden Age

16. Peter Coveney

    Author of Arrow of Time, Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World

17. Heinz R. Pagels

    Author of The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics As the Language of Nature, The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity

18. William H. Calvin

    Author of How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now (Science Masters Series), The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness, The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind

19. John Horgan

    Author of The End of Science (Helix Books)

20. Steven Weinberg

    Author of Dreams of a Final Theory