Einstein created an unstoppable “intellectual chain reaction,” an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity.

For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

At his “World of Physics” Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls.

I do not know if God is a mathematician, but mathematics is the loom upon which God weaves the fabric of the universe... The fact that reality can be described or approximated by simple mathematical expressions suggests to me that nature has mathematics at its core.

Einstein created an unstoppable "intellectual chain reaction," an avalanche of pulsing, chattering neurons and memes that will ring for an eternity

At his "World of Physics" Web site, Eric W. Weisstein notes that the fine structure constant continues to fascinate numerologists, who have claimed that connections exist between alpha, the Cheops pyramid, and Stonehenge!

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

Preservations are working to save neon signs for future generations, either on-site or in museums. After all, what would America be without a few giant doughnuts around.

Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.