By Clifford PickoverOur Price: $10.00 Amazon doesn't carry it! Our Item Code: AlienIqTest Postage Code: book1
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"If pop culture (the Hollywood blockbuster Independence Day, hit TV shows like the X-Files and Third Rock from the Sun) is a prophet to be trusted, aliens may soon outnumber humans on this planet. Fortunately... a manual will ease the strain of forced introductions. The strange, symbolic transmissions we've received from outer space (haven't we?) are collected by Clifford Pickover in THE ALIEN IQ TEST: ARE WE UP TO THE CHALLENGE? The problems, puzzles, and questions in this Basic Books title are intended to assess human intelligence -- making this a quiz we simply mustn't fail." -- Publisher's Weekly, January 20, 1997, p. 346
"Clifford Pickover is many things -- scientist, scholar, author, editor, and visionary -- and so it may surprise some that he seems to be embracing the shadowy world of alien visitation and abduction. Yet the man OMNI magazine recently described as "Van Leeuwenhoek's 20th century equivalent" has just written a book titled THE ALIEN IQ TEST that is filled, in his own words, with "strange looking puzzles... from another world -- a world where small gray beings visit us only at night." Perhaps in subtle jest, perhaps in utter seriousness, Pickover would have us believe that this illustrated collection of mindbenders came to him in a dream (or was it a dream?), and is a "universal standard" by which some extraterrestrial civilization is judging our basic intelligence and capacity for logic. GAMES is pleased to provide an advance sample (direct from a secret government installation, under the tightest security) of the puzzles contained therein, to allow you to test your cosmic awareness." - Games magazine, April, 1997, pg 48.
"That he gets his ideas from aliens while sleeping is the most plausible explanation I've heard of how Cliff Pickover keeps coming up with these thought-provoking questions and engaging riddles." - Julien C. Sprott, Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The most original -- and challenging -- puzzle book for years. Clifford Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us." - Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick, and author of Nature's Numbers
"If earthly problems and puzzles have become too mundane for you -- match wits with those in Pickover's new and literally far out The Alien IQ Test. Another ingenious twist by a master of puzzles and brainteasers." - Theoni Pappas, author of The Joy of Mathematics and The Mathematics Calendar
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Who This Book is For Chapter 2. Symbols and Difficulty Levels Chapter 3. Alien Tiles Chapter 4. Alien Sperm Chapter 5. Alien Ellipses Chapter 6. Alien Repeats Chapter 7. Alien Matrix Chapter 8. Internal Organs Chapter 9. Alien Dissection Chapter 10. Alien Addition Chapter 11. Hyperdimensional Sz'kwa Chapter 12. Alien Spiral Chapter 13. Survival on Arcturus Chapter 14. Alien Medallion with Lights Chapter 15. The Omega Prism Chapter 16. Alien Worm Chapter 17. Alien Homoptera Chapter 18. Star Chart Chapter 19. Alien Spores 1 Chapter 20. Alien Spores 2 Chapter 21. Alien Spores 3 Chapter 22. Alien Spores 4 Chapter 23. Alien Spores 5 Chapter 24. Rubik's Tesseract Chapter 25. Animal Eye Chapter 26. Cosmic Rosetta Stone Chapter 27. Alien Ants in Hyperspace Chapter 28. A Severed Human Finger Chapter 29. The Antikythera Mechanism Chapter 30. Alien Scrambling Chapter 31. Alien Aesthetics Chapter 32. Alien Knowledge and Talent Chapter 33. The Sagittarius Maneuver Chapter 34. Siriusian Geometry Chapter 35. Human Brains in a Jar Chapter 36. Human Belief Structure Chapter 37. Contact from the Pleiades Chapter 38. The Elk Hunter's Abduction Chapter 39. Loss of Scientific Knowledge Chapter 40. Aliens and Sprinklers Chapter 41. Unanswered Questions Chapter 42. Moral and Emotional Choices of Humans Chapter 43. Coded Transmission Solutions For Further Reading About the Author
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